Soames went back to his seat. The thing was "rich," as his father would have said, and he wouldn't give a damn for it. Expression! they were all Expressionists now, he had heard, on the Continent. So it was coming here too, was it? He remembered the first wave of influenza in 1887--or '8-- hatched in China, so they said. He wondered where this--this Expressionism had been hatched. The thing was a regular disease!英文原著 · 《Awakening & To Let》
"No use! Of course there is. Just as if your hens couldn't hatch ducks' eggs. Now you just wait till one of your hens wants to sit, and you put ducks' eggs under her, and you'll have a family of ducks in a twinkling. You can buy ducks' eggs a plenty of old Sam under the hill. He always has hens hatch his ducks."英文原著 · 《Queer Little Folks》
Muller nodded. Johann disappeared, returning in a few moments with a small hatchet, and followed the commissioner through the dining-room. It was an attractive apartment with its high wooden paneling and its dainty breakfast table. But a slight shiver ran through the commissioner's frame as he realised that some misfortune, some crime even might be waiting for them on the other side of the closed door. The bedroom door also was locked on the inside, and after some moments of knocking and calling, Horn set the hatchet to the framework just as the bell of the house-door pealed out.英文原著 · 《The Case of the Golden Bullet》
{hatchet shaped = William Henry Seward was famous for his angular, hatchet-shaped nose}英文原著 · 《The Lake Gun》
As she worked she failed to hear the scraping of naked bodies clambering over the ship's side, or the padding of unshod feet upon the deck above her. She was about to give up her work at the hatch when the heavy wooden cover suddenly commenced to move above her as though actuated by some supernatural power. Fascinated, the girl stood gazing in wide-eyed astonishment as one end of the hatch rose higher and higher until a little patch of blue sky revealed the fact that morning had come. Then the cover slid suddenly back and Virginia Maxon found herself looking into a savage and terrible face.英文原著 · 《The Monster Men》
So go ahead and swing your hatchet at the case.美剧 · 《Billions》
But the one thing more important than giving oxygen to the fire of Axe Cap is keeping my escape hatches open in case those pricks from the government ever come after me again.美剧 · 《Billions》
When our chicks first hatch, we lovingly inject them with natural delicious hormones, which makes them meat, thereby erasing any moral gray area!美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
Admit it, you counted your chickens before they hatched, and now, those chickens have come home to roost.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
Is because he knows that on the fourth day or the fifth day, those larvae will hatch is because he knows that on the fourth day or the fifth day, those larvae will hatch演讲 · 《A plant's-eye view ~ Michael Pollan》