With respect to the Copley medal (39/3. The Copley Medal was given to Lyell in 1858.), I have a strong feeling that Lyell has a high claim, but as he has had the Royal Medal I presume that it would be thought objectionable to propose him; and as I intend (you not objecting and converting me) to propose W. for the Royal, it would, of course, appear intolerably presumptuous to propose for the Copley also.英文原著 · 《More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I》
Royal Medal, 1853. Copley Medal, 1864. Linnean. Ethnological. Medico-Chirurgical. Member. Baly Medal of the Royal College of Physicians, 1879.英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-2》
It's a fine town. I'll give you this medal," he showed me a little silver medal that he wore hung around his neck. "You'll wrap it up in paper"--he paused a moment to master his emotion --"and you'll take it, or send it, to an old lady whose address I'll give you. Tell her I am dead--but don't tell her how I died."
I promised to perform his commission. I saw him the next day, and spent part of it in his company. From his lips I learned the sad incidents that follow.英文原著 · 《Carmen》
Of the Royal Medals. ------ 8. Of the Copley Medals. ------ 9. Of the Fairchild Lecture. ------ 10. Of the Croonian Lecture. ------ 11.英文原著 · 《Decline of Science in England》
The labours, both in the discovery and measurement of the double stars, and in the discussion of the observations with the object of finding the orbits of such stars as are in actual revolution, received due recognition in yet another gold medal awarded by the Royal Society. An address was delivered on the occasion by the Duke of Sussex (30th November, 1833), in the course of which, after stating that the medal had been conferred on Sir John Herschel, he remarks:--英文原著 · 《Great Astronomers》
In the course of 1748, Friedrich, judging by Pommern and the other symptoms that his enterprise was safe, struck a victorious Medal upon it: "FRIDERICUS BORUSSORUM REX," pressing with his sceptre the oblique Balance to a level posture; with Epigraph, "EMENDATO JURE." [Letter to Cocceji, accompanying Copy of the Medal in Gold, "24th June, 1748" (Seyfarth, ii. 67 n.).] And by New-year's day, 1750, the matter was in effect completed; and "justice cheap, expeditious, certain," a fact in all Prussian Lands.英文原著 · 《History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 16》
My whole life, all I had was this half of a medallion with part of a family crest on it.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
I mean, who wasn't separated from their family as a baby and still wears their half of a medallion in the hopes of one day being reunited with their long-lost twin?美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
I still think it's pretty nutty we both have the left half of a medallion.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
You and your kiss-ass chorus following you around going, "The Field's medal! The Field's medal!" Why are you still so fuckin' afraid of failure?电影 · 《Good Will Hunting (1997)》