Edna did not know when the Impromptu began or ended. She sat in the sofa corner reading Robert's letter by the fading light. Mademoiselle had glided from the Chopin into the quivering lovenotes of Isolde's song, and back again to the Impromptu with its soulful and poignant longing.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
These little cities by the canal side had a very odd effect upon the mind. They seemed, with their flower-pots and smoking chimneys, their washings and dinners, a rooted piece of nature in the scene; and yet if only the canal below were to open, one junk after another would hoist sail or harness horses and swim away into all parts of France; and the impromptu hamlet would separate, house by house, to the four winds. The children who played together to- day by the Sambre and Oise Canal, each at his own father's threshold, when and where might they next meet?英文原著 · 《An Inland Voyage》
"It was written about you, not to you. `Have you seen Mrs. Pontellier? How is she looking?' he asks. `As Mrs. Pontellier says,' or `as Mrs. Pontellier once said.' `If Mrs. Pontellier should call upon you, play for her that Impromptu of Chopin's, my favorite.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
"Show me the letter and play for me the Impromptu. You see that I have persistence. Does that quality count for anything in art?"英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
Mademoiselle played a soft interlude. It was an improvisation. She sat low at the instrument, and the lines of her body settled into ungraceful curves and angles that gave it an appearance of deformity. Gradually and imperceptibly the interlude melted into the soft opening minor chords of the Chopin Impromptu.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
{an9}{pos(380,5)}Impromptu No...4 In C Sharp Minor, Op...66 "Fantaisie-Impromptu"美剧 · 《Halt and catch Fire》
Eating contests, body sushi, impromptu trips on the private jet to Amsterdam for frites and spacecakes from The Bulldog.美剧 · 《Billions》
Diane and I wanna thank you all for coming to our impromptu rehearsal dinner, even though we did not actually have time - to organize a rehearsal. - Or a dinner.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
It might be an impromptu wedding. or a recently diagnosed tumor. or a make-believe pregnancy.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》