"Oh, a number. Otters and beavers we caught them in deadfalls and in steel
traps. The mink we usually took in deadfalls, smaller, of course, than the ones
we used for the bears. The musk-rat we caught in box traps like a mouse trap. The wild-cat we ran down like the loup cervier "英文原著 · 《Beautiful Joe》
In hunting songs, the leading animals are intro- duced; they come to the boy to offer their bodies for the sustenance of his tribe. The animals are regarded as his friends, and spoken of almost as tribes of people, or as his cousins, grandfathers and grandmothers. The songs of wooing, adapted as lullabies, were equally imaginative, and the suitors were often animals personified, while pretty maid- ens were represented by the mink and the doe.英文原著 · 《Indian Boyhood》
The habits of the animals, the value of their pelts, the curing of the furs, their final market, was all gone over again and again. The two extra months at sea gave him an insight into a great business and he had the time to fletcherize his ideas. He thought about it--wrote about it in his diary, for he was at the journal-age. Wolves, bears badgers, minks, and muskrats, filled his dreams.英文原著 · 《John Jacob Astor》
``Tom!'' she faltered. ``I've come back, Polly Ann,'' said he. But his voice was not so clear as a while ago. Then Polly Ann surprised me. ``What made you come back?'' said she, as though she didn't care a minkskin. Whereat Mr. McChesney shifted his feet. ``I reckon it was to fetch you, Polly Ann.''
``I like that!'' cried she.英文原著 · 《The Crossing》
The hum-bird shook his sun-touched wings around, The bluefinch caroll'd in the still retreat; The antic squirrel capered on the ground Where lichens made a carpet for his feet: Through the transparent waves, the ruddy minkle Shot up in glimmering sparks his red fin's tiny twinkle.英文原著 · 《The Culprit Fay and Other Poems》
[Vicious digs with a pencil through the above proper names.] Race for the Derby won by Sir Joseph Hawley's Musjid! [That's what England cares for! Hooray for the Darby! Italy be deedeed!] Visit of Prince Alfred to the Holy Land. Letter from our, own Correspondent. A West Minkville ?] Cotton advanced. Breadstuffs declining. --Deacon Rumrill's barn burned down on Saturday night.英文原著 · 《The Guardian Angel》
This is mink, okay? They're mean, and they hate squirrels.美剧 · 《Friends》
You look down at me and my ways, but you're happy to wear the mink coat that fell off the back of the truck!美剧 · 《Modern Family》
You may wanna rethink your wardrobe Wilhelmina We're gonna have a little trouble convincing them we need money wearing mink美剧 · 《Ugly Betty》
It's not mink darling, it's chinchilla Whatever it is, you look like a rich bitch美剧 · 《Ugly Betty》