21 FIFTH AVENUE, Jan. 24, '06. DEAR GORDONS,--I have just received your golden-wedding "At Home" and am trying to adjust my focus to it and realize how much it means. It is inconceivable! With a simple sweep it carries me back over a stretch of time measurable only in astronomical terms and geological periods. It brings before me Mrs. Gordon, young, round-limbed, handsome; and with her the Youngbloods and their two babies, and Laura Wright, that unspoiled little maid, that fresh flower of the woods and the prairies. Forty-eight years ago!英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 5》
For the first time he saw the war as something measurable, as something with a beginning and an end, as something less than the immortal spirit in man. He had been too much oppressed by it. He perceived all these people in the street were too much oppressed by it. He wanted to tell them as much, tell them that all was well with them, bid them be of good cheer. He wanted to bless them. He found his arm floating up towards gestures of benediction. Self-control became increasingly difficult.英文原著 · 《Soul of a Bishop》
His voice ceased, and he stood for a measurable time with his arms extended and his face upturned....英文原著 · 《Soul of a Bishop》
This is the practical and personal benefit arising from the realization of the Principle which is symbolized under the two-fold metaphor of the Shepherd and the Stone. and in all those new developments which are perhaps even now within measurable distance, we can rest on the knowledge that we are under the care of a kind Shepherd, and under the formation of a wise Master Builder.英文原著 · 《The Dore Lectures on Mental Science》
And it clears him up. We get him to look into himself, to see directly and in measurable terms what it is that puts him wrong and holds him back. He's no longer vaguely incapacitated. He knows." "That's diagnosis. That's not treatment." "Treatment by diagnosis. To analyze a mental knot is to untie it." "You propose that I shall spend my time, until the Commission meets, in thinking about myself. I wanted to forget myself." "Like a man who tries to forget that his petrol is running short and a cylinder missing fire. Come back to the question of what you are," said the doctor.英文原著 · 《The Secret Places of the Heart》
There was a blank stillness for a measurable time, so that they could hear far off a flower-girl's laugh outside Charing Cross, and someone whistling furiously for a taxicab in one of the streets off the Strand. Then the Captain, with a movement so sudden that it might have been passion or play-acting, took Sir Wilson Seymour by the throat.英文原著 · 《The Wisdom of Father Brown》
And the thought of coming up short-- Measurable successes are seductive.美剧 · 《Billions》
Haley, there are forces in the universe that we don't understand... measurable forces that...can't be explained, but cannot be denied... and that's-that's what this is.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
Well,we don't have a dolly, Or lifting belts or any measurable upper-body strength.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
Granted,my methods may have been somewhat unorthodox, But I think the end result will be a measurable enhancement -to penny's quality of life -you've convinced me.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》