"All right," said the youth cheerfully; "you can look on. Come and sit by me for a mascot."英文原著 · 《His Own People》
"You'll need a mascot, my boy!" shouted Pedlow. "That's right, though; take her."英文原著 · 《His Own People》
He pushed a chair close to that in which Cooley had already seated himself, and Madame de Vaurigard dropped into it, laughing. "Mellin, you set there," he continued, pushing the young man into a seat opposite Cooley. "We'll give both you young fellers a mascot." He turned to Lady Mount-Rhyswicke, who had gone to the settee by the fire. "Madge, you come and set by Mellin," he commanded jovially. "Maybe he'll forget you ain't a widow again."英文原著 · 《His Own People》
"I don't believe I care much about bein' anybody's mascot to-night," she answered. There was a hint of anger in her tired monotone.英文原著 · 《His Own People》
John Jacob Astor had no such belief in luck omens, portents, or mascots as had A. Stewart. With him success was a sequence--a result--it was all cause and effect. Stewart did not trust entirely to luck, for he too, carefully devised and planned. But the difference between the Celtic and Teutonic mind is shown in that Stewart hoped to succeed, while Astor knew that he would. One was a bit anxious; the other exasperatingly placid.英文原著 · 《John Jacob Astor》
"You will take care of it well for me," the dancer said to Barbara, and her voice vibrated with a surprising eagerness, "you will guard it preciously until I come for it..." She laughed and added carelessly: "Because it is a family treasure, a life mascotte of mine, hein?"英文原著 · 《Okewood of the Secret Service》