The window was never strictly examined; I therefore drew the two staples by which the iron bars were fixed to the wall, and which I daily replaced, carefully plastering them over. I procured wire from Gelfhardt, and tried how well I could imitate the inner grating: finding I succeeded tolerably, I cut the real grating totally away, and substituted an artificial one of my own fabricating, by which I obtained a free communication with the outside, additional fresh air, together with all necessary implements, tinder, and candles.英文原著 · 《The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck-2》
Some one handed a narrow tin cup full of coffee and a thick slice of bread through the grating. Across the way he dimly saw a man eating a similar slice of bread. Men in other com- partments were swearing and singing. He knew these now for the voices he had heard in his dreams. He tried to force some of the bread down his parched and swollen throat, but failed; the coffee strangled him, and he threw himself upon the bench.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
"No more of that jargon," the Marquise broke in, "in print it may be endurable; but to have it grating upon my ears is a punishment which I do not in the least deserve."英文原著 · 《A Prince of Bohemia》
Her face was suddenly flooded with red as she realized what she had been going to do, she who had exclaimed that every one has a right to their freedom. For an instant she had meant to go to Vere's room, to try to find out surreptitiously what Emile knew. A moment later Vere, coming back swiftly for a pencil she had forgotten, heard the sharp grating of a key in the lock of her mother's door. She ran on lightly, wondering why her mother was locking herself in, and against whom.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
But she could not see the book; so she sat still, listening to the blind man and gazing at the calm sea just below her. A boat was waiting there. She could see the cushions, which were white and looked ghastly in the darkness, the dim form of the rower standing up to search for clients. "Barca! Barca!"
He had seen her. She drew back a little. As she did so her chair made a grating noise, and instantly the sharp ears of the Padrone caught a sound betokening the presence of a new-comer in his restaurant. It might be a queen, an empress!英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
He said no more; he had detected a rebellious shake of the head on his daughter's part. Both made several paces towards the carriage which was waiting for them at the grating. During that interval of silence, the young girl stole a glance at her father's face, and little by little her sullen brow cleared. The intense pain visible on his bowed forehead made a lively impression upon her.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
Wow. Just when I thought your voice couldn't get any more grating.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Still, she spent that friday morning grating cheese... and greasing a pan... and laying in macaroni because her eldest daughter was sick, and stella could no longer sit by and do nothing.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
There's a grating on the wall which means you can hear what's being said in the room.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》