Did Jolyon wear a plate? Did that woman wear a plate? Time had been when he had seen her wearing nothing! That was something, anyway, which had never been stolen from him. And she knew it, though she might sit there calm and self-possessed, as if she had never been his wife. An acid humour stirred in his Forsyte blood; a subtle pain divided by hair's breadth from pleasure. If only June did not suddenly bring her hornets about his ears! The boy was talking.英文原著 · 《Awakening & To Let》
Swope, still in his socks and with his wife's shoulder-cape upon him, caught up somehow, is trying to soothe her. He is as mad as a hornet, and doesn't dare to show it. All this furniture he had insured. It was all old stuff their folks had given them. If the gallant fire-laddies had been as discreet as they were zealous, they would have let the furniture go, and Swope and his wife would have had an entire, brand-new outfit. As it is, who can ever make that junk look like anything any more?英文原著 · 《Back Home》
"Ease to the body some, none to the mind From restless thoughts, that like a deadly swarm Of hornets armed no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging, and present Times past, what once I was, and what am now."英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-2》
"Of course, I ought to have said your father. By selling East Lynne, a few thousands will come into my hands, after claims on it are settled; I have no other means of raising the wind, and that is why I have resolved to part with it. But now, understand, if it were known abroad that East Lynne is going from me, I should have a hornet's nest about my ears; so that it must be disposed of /privately/. Do you comprehend?"英文原著 · 《East Lynne》
These miscreants, who never were alive,
Were naked, and were stung exceedingly
By gadflies and by hornets that were there.英文原著 · 《Inferno》
Burlingame and Van Valkenburgh were on their way to their posts, and their coming to the islands just at this time proved a most important circumstance to Mark Twain. We shall come to this presently, in a summary of the newspaper letters written to the Union. June 27th he wrote to his mother and sister a letter, only a fragment of which survives, in which he tells of the arrival in Honolulu of the survivors of the ship Hornet, burned on the line, and of his securing the first news report of the lost vessel.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 1》
If Bobby Axelrod shook a hornet's nest, the goddamn hornet ought to have the goddamn sense to stay inside.美剧 · 《Billions》
but the Green Hornet had the moves... See, I'm the Green Hornet, I got the moves...美剧 · 《Sex and the city》
This seems like going up to a murder hornet's nest, shaking it and almost asking it to sting you.美剧 · 《Billions》
I don't know, Dollar Bill. A hornet's kind of like me.美剧 · 《Billions》