The College of Needless Knocks
The Bumps That We Bump Into
NEARLY all the bumps we get are Needless Knocks. There comes a vivid memory of one of my early Needless Knocks as I say that. It was back at the time when I was trying to run our home to suit myself. I sat in the highest chair in the family circle. I was three years old and ready to graduate. That day they had the little joy and sunshine of the family in his high-chair throne right up beside the dinner table. The coffee-pot was within grabbing distance. I became enamored with that coffee-pot.英文原著 · 《The University of Hard Knocks》
"Was it your daughter you wanted so much to see?" she asked softly. "My daughter! My little girl," he answered! "And I heard her calling to me with her mother's voice across the sea. So I took the money."
"No one would blame you very much for that, I am sure," she said cheerfully. "You are frightening yourself needlessly. I will speak to Father, and he shall help you."
He held up his hand. "He is hiding me," he whispered.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
You haven't got your lesson yet. You've got to stay after school. We make a needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take. Memento mori! We don't understand that sublime sentence which some worthy got sculptured on his gravestone once. We've interpreted it in a grovelling and snivelling sense; we've wholly forgotten how to die.英文原著 · 《A Plea for Captain John Brown》
"Saddled with a virago FOR LIFE!" shouted Vizard, with a loud defiance that seemed needless, since nobody was objecting violently to his being saddled.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
The church has a possible seating capacity of 4,200, although only 3,135 chairs have been put in it, for it has been the desire not to crowd the space needlessly. There is also a great room for the Sunday-school, and extensive rooms for the young men's association, the young women's association, and for a kitchen, for executive offices, for meeting-places for church officers and boards and committees. It is a spacious and practical and complete church home, and the people feel at home there.英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
'What name?' said Hughie. 'You tell 'm white man close up we fella boat's-crew go along. He no come now, we fella boy no wait. We go.' And just then Hughie fetched him a clout that knocked him clean down the stairs and off the veranda."
"But it was needlessly cruel," Joan objected. "You wouldn't treat a white man that way."
"And that's just the point. He wasn't a white man. He was a low black nigger, and he was deliberately insulting, not alone his own white master, but every white master in the Solomons. He insulted me.英文原著 · 《Adventure》
Needless to say, my two boys were underwhelmed.美剧 · 《Billions》
Needless to say: with this in Bryan Connerty's hands, the spotlight moves off of you and shines all over Mr. And Mrs. Rhoades.美剧 · 《Billions》