Old Mother Magpie was about the busiest character in the forest. But you must know that there is a great difference between being busy and being industrious. One may be very busy all the time, and yet not in the least industrious; and this was the case with Mother Magpie.英文原著 · 《Queer Little Folks》
The lazy boy became a "tired" man. The industrious boy became an industrious man. The sporty boy became a sporty man. The domineering egotist boy became the domineering egotist man. The boy who traded knives with me and beat me--how I used to envy him! Why was it he could always get the better of me? Well, he went on trading knives and getting the better of people. Now, twenty-one years afterwards, he was doing time in the state penitentiary for forgery.英文原著 · 《The University of Hard Knocks》
The set phrases, the vain prayer offered for other sinners, the hypocritical profession of a superior righteousness, were neither noble nor sincere. When Tom Jones (for instance) was hanged, in 1702, after a prosperous career on Hounslow Heath, his biographer declared that he behaved with more than usual `modesty and decency,' because he `delivered a pretty deal of good advice to the young men present, exhorting them to be industrious in their several callings.' Whereas his biographer should have discovered that it is not thus that your true hero bids farewell to frolic and adventure.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
They have grown used to their own unreason; chaos is their cosmos; and the whirlwind is the breath of their nostrils. These nations are really in danger of going off their heads en masse; of becoming one vast vision of imbecility, with toppling cities and crazy country-sides, all dotted with industrious lunatics. One of these countries is modern England.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
GOING home in the carriage, Zoe was silent, but Severne talked nineteen to the dozen. Had his object been to hinder his companion's mind from dwelling too long on one thing, he could not have rattled the dice of small talk more industriously. His words would fill pages; his topics were, that Miss Gale was an extraordinary woman, but too masculine for his taste, and had made her own troubles setting up doctress, when her true line was governess--for boys. He was also glib and satirical upon that favorite butt, a friend.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
"This is Nanina's sister," said the good-natured sick-nurse, taking the first opportunity of introducing La Biondella to the great marquis's great man. "A very good, industrious little girl; and very clever at plaiting dinner-mats, in case his excellency should ever want any. What have you done with the dog, my dear?"英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
Oh, Egypt is a land where the pyramids stand Which were built by industrious jews And windmills go around in Holland town Where they all wear wooden shoes These are the things we learned today And there's one last thing we want to say "We love the word" Where's the "L"?美剧 · 《Modern Family》
Ian, industrious, conscientious, ambitious, incredible work ethic.美剧 · 《Shameless》
You know, some industrious reporter is going to point out the contradiction.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
It's not easy to one-up the Greeks. But with the industriousness of the Egyptians, It's not easy to one-up the Greeks. But with the industriousness of the Egyptians,演讲 · 《A free digital library ~ Brewster Kahle》