Why didn't you look us up noon-time? I could have told you better than that. (They went to the Ladies' Aid dinner.) Well, we shan't have much, I expect, but we'll try and scrape up something more filling than layer-cake. The idea of expecting to feed hungry people on layer-cake! It's an imposition . I didn't notice which one it was. Doesn't matter any way. Only twenty-eight.英文原著 · 《Back Home》
The room itself might have been full of secrets. They seemed to be piling themselves up, as evening fell, like the layers and layers of velvet shadow dropping from the low ceiling, the dusky walls of books, the smoke-blurred sculpture of the hooded hearth.英文原著 · 《Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton-Part 2》
{6} This whole subject has been ably discussed and explained by H. de Vries, 'Arbeiten des Bot. Instituts in Wurzburg,' Heft iii. 331, 336. See also Sachs ('Text-Book of Botany,' English translation, 1875, p. 770), who concludes "that torsion is the result of growth continuing in the outer layers after it has ceased or begun to cease in the inner layers."英文原著 · 《The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants》
"Have a drink or not?" cried Amory rudely. Together they sought the bar. "Rye high."
"I'll just take a Bronx."
Wilson had another; Amory had several more. They decided to sit down. At ten o'clock Wilson was displaced by Carling, class of '15. Amory, his head spinning gorgeously, layer upon layer of soft satisfaction setting over the bruised spots of his spirit, was discoursing volubly on the war. "'S a mental was'e," he insisted with owl-like wisdom. "Two years my life spent inalleshual vacuity.英文原著 · 《This Side of Paradise》
``Egad!'' quoth the Hon. ``Did yon lusty trencherman of Annie Laurie's but put a few more layers of goodly flesh about his ribs, thereby projecting more his frontal Falstaffian proportions, by my halidom, he would have to joust tandem!''英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
Why Rouge is to be preferred.--"Because it burnishes better, and because it assists in fixing the layer of gold, rendering it less susceptible of being removed in scales when heated too much."英文原著 · 《American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype》
First there's a layer of ladyfingers, then a layer of jam...美剧 · 《Friends》
First, there's a layer of ladyfingers, then a layer of jam.美剧 · 《Friends》
Yeah, the database layers, the application layers, even the chef scripts are fucked.美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》
You should begin proximal attachment at the neck incision, using layer-to-layer technique on the esophagus and microvascular anastomosis of the vessels.美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》