It was at some point on the left bank of the Piscataqua, three or four miles from the mouth of the river, that worthy Master Pring probably effected one of his several landings. The beautiful stream widens suddenly at this place, and the green banks, then covered with a network of strawberry vines, and sloping invitingly to the lip of the crystal water, must have won the tired mariners.英文原著 · 《An Old Town By The Sea》
Ibsen, the supreme hater of all social shams, has torn the veil of hypocrisy from their faces. His greatest onslaught, however, is on the four cardinal points supporting the flimsy network of society. First, the lie upon which rests the life of today; second, the futility of sacrifice as preached by our moral codes; third, petty material consideration, which is the only god the majority worships; and fourth, the deadening influence of provincialism. These four recur as the LEITMOTIF in Ibsen's plays, but particularly in PILLARS OF SOCIETY, DOLL'S HOUSE, GHOSTS, and AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
God and the Devil! When I was a boy, my mother wanted to make a priest out of me. When I grew up, I became a trained agronome in order . to strangle the people and smash their skulls. Revolution is a very stupid thing!"
And with anger and disgust he spit and began to smoke his pipe. At the other outpost also all was finished. During this night we reached the top of the Tannu Ola and descended again into a valley covered with dense bushes and twined with a whole network of small rivers and streams. It was the headwaters of the Buret Hei.英文原著 · 《Beasts, Men and Gods》
She had rings, ear and finger; anklets and bracelets, all of gold; and around her neck there was a collar of gold, curiously garnished with a network of delicate chains, to which were pendants of pearl. The edges of her eyelids were painted, and the tips of her fingers stained. Her hair fell in two long plaits down her back. A curled lock rested upon each cheek in front of the ear. Altogether it would have been impossible to deny her grace, refinement, and beauty. "Very pretty, my Tirzah, very pretty!" he said, with animation. "The song?" she asked. "Yes--and the singer, too.英文原著 · 《Ben-Hur》
He fancied the man's acquiescence implied surprise. What was going on, Flint seemed to wonder, that Mr. Granice should want him out of the way? Probably he would find a pretext for coming back to see. Granice suddenly felt himself enveloped in a network of espionage.英文原著 · 《Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton-Part 1》
Then came the great outburst of activity. Within a score of years telegraph wires covered the whole occupied country with a network, and the first great electrical industry was a pronounced success, yielding to its pioneers the first great harvest of electrical fortunes. It had been a sharp struggle for bare existence, during which such a man as the founder of Cornell University had been glad to get breakfast in New York with a quarter-dollar picked up on Broadway.英文原著 · 《Edison, His Life and Inventions》
I mean, Richard, we'd be offering to store data on a network of cellphones before we built the app or the network.美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》
If the network pays one red commie cent, I'm gonna quit the network and I'm gonnatake my nine million viewers with me.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
They use a private network known as SIPRNet-- Secret Internet Protocol Router Network.美剧 · 《The News Room》
Because these networks -- these real-life networks that make up people's lives -- because these networks -- these real-life networks that make up people's lives --演讲 · 《Make data more human ~ Jer Thorp》