Beer flowed from a sturdy regiment of barrels. "The Court" kitchen and the village bakehouse kept pouring forth meats, baked, boiled, and roast; there was a pile of loaves like a haystack; and they roasted an ox whole on the Green; and, when they found they were burning him raw, they fetched the butcher, like sensible fellows, and dismembered the giant, and so roasted him reasonably.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
"Well, Davie," said he, "is this no a bonny morning? Here is a day that looks the way that a day ought to. This is a great change of it from the belly of my haystack; and while you were there sottering and sleeping I have done a thing that maybe I do very seldom."英文原著 · 《Catriona》
"And it sets me ill to be complaining, whatever," said he, "and me but new out of yon deil's haystack."英文原著 · 《Catriona》
"And so you were unco weary of your haystack?" I asked.英文原著 · 《Catriona》
"The goodman brought me my meat and a drop brandy, and a candle-dowp to eat it by, about eleeven," said he. "So, when I had swallowed a bit, it would he time to be getting to the wood. There I lay and wearied for ye sore, Davie," says he, laying his hand on my shoulder "and guessed when the two hours would be about by - unless Charlie Stewart would come and tell me on his watch - and then back to the dooms haystack. Na, it was a driech employ, and praise the Lord that I have warstled through with it!"英文原著 · 《Catriona》
If the ship's there, we'll try and get on board of her. If she's no there, I'll just have to get back to my weary haystack. But either way of it, I think we will leave your gentry whistling on their thumbs."英文原著 · 《Catriona》
It's like looking for a dirty needle in a haystack, which I've done.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
I mean, the truth is, we're probably never gonna find Zach anyway It's a needle in a haystack.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
Imagine the fallout if the public were to find out that -- A needle in a haystack, and not a needle that Dunbar is looking for.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
"It's a needle in the haystack she's not trying to find." That's what you said. Well, she found the needle.美剧 · 《House of Cards》