Across the street, on his balcony, Upsher, in pajamas and mosquito boots, was shivering with fever and stifling a yawn. "You lose!" he called.英文原著 · 《A Question of Latitude》
In the Upper Congo, Everett had seen four white women. They were pallid, washed-out, bloodless; even the youngest looked past middle-age. For him women of any other type had ceased to exist. He had come to think of every white woman as past middle-age, with a face wrinkled by the sun, with hair bleached white by the sun, with eyes from which, through gazing at the sun, all light and lustre had departed. He thought of them as always wearing boots to protect their ankles from mosquitoes, and army helmets.英文原著 · 《A Question of Latitude》
Her mutilated life was more vehemently centred upon Vere than she had understood. Of Vere she could be jealous. If Vere put any one before her, trusted any one more than her, confided anything to another rather than to her, she could be frightfully jealous. Recently she had suspected--she had imagined--
Restlessly she moved on her bed. A mosquito-curtain protected it. She was glad of that, as if it kept out prying eyes. For sometimes she was ashamed of the vehemence within her. She thought of her friend Emile, whom she had dragged back from death.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
Her woman's instinct told her so. That was the day on which Vere had told Emile the secret she had kept from her mother. How excited Vere had been, almost feverishly excited! And Emile had been very strange. When the Marchesino and Vere went out upon the terrace, how restless, how irritable he--
Suddenly Hermione sat up in her bed. The heat, the stillness, the white cage of the mosquito net, the silence had become intolerable to her. She pulled aside the net. Yes, that was better.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
May I come in?"
She knocked again. There was no answer. Then she opened the door and went in. Possibly Vere was sleeping. The mosquito-net was drawn round the bed, but Hermione saw that her child was not behind it. Vere had gone out somewhere. The mother went to the big window which looked out upon the sea. The green Venetian blind was drawn.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
"Oh, I get along pretty well with them. Of course, there is a bit of trouble once in a while, but that must be expected. You must never let them think you are afraid. I've been afraid plenty of times, but they never knew it."
"You would think he wouldn't strike a mosquito that was biting him," Sheldon said when Young had gone on board. "All the Norfolk Islanders that have descended from the Bounty crowd are that way. But look at Young. Only three years ago, when he first got the Minerva, he was lying in Suu, on Malaita. There are a lot of returned Queenslanders there--a rough crowd.英文原著 · 《Adventure》
besides, you hate mosquitoes,we hate mosquitoes-- everybody wins, except the mosquitoes.美剧 · 《Ugly Betty》
And that water drew mosquitoes. These mosquitoes, to be exact.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
They're sick, and so they're less able to defend themselves from the mosquitoes. They're sick, and so they're less able to defend themselves from the mosquitoes.演讲 · 《Could this laser zap malaria ~ Nathan Myhrvold》
In the case of malaria, what we'd like to do is mosquito-proof houses. In the case of malaria, what we'd like to do is mosquito-proof houses.演讲 · 《Can we domesticate germs ~ Paul Ewald》