I send a very imperfect answer to [your] question, which I have written on foreign paper to save you copying, and you can send when you write to Thomson in Calcutta. Hereafter I shall be able to answer better your question about qualities induced in individuals being inherited; gout in man--loss of wool in sheep (which begins in the first generation and takes two or three to complete); probably obesity (for it is rare with poor); probably obesity and early maturity in short-horn cattle, etc., etc.英文原著 · 《More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I》
"Why ma'am," says I, "he's a plain incumbent of the mountains, with asperities and the usual failings of a spendthrift and a liar, but I never on the most momentous occasion had the heart to deny that he was a gentleman. It may be that in haberdashery and the sense of arrogance and display Idaho offends the eye, but inside, ma'am, I've found him impervious to the lower grades of crime and obesity. After nine years of Idaho's society, Mrs. Sampson," I winds up, "I should hate to impute him, and I should hate to see him imputed."英文原著 · 《Heart of the West》
`` `Notice'!'' he wailed. ``I guess Miss PRATT noticed! Hot weather's no excuse for--for outright obesity!'' (As Jane was thin, it is probable that William had mistaken the meaning of this word.) ``Why, half o' what she HAS got on has come unfastened--especially that frightful thing hanging around her leg--and look at her back, I just beg you! I ask you to look at her back. You can see her spinal cord!''英文原著 · 《Seventeen》
He appeared larger than usual and more imposing. His black girdle. broken by the roughness of the soldiers, left his cassock loose and floating. His waving, silvery hair was dripping blood, spotting with its red drops the white clerical collar. Upon seeing him cross the fatal field with unsteady step, because of his obesity, a savage roar cut the tragic silence. The unarmed soldiers, who had hastened to witness the execution, greeted the venerable old man with shouts of laughter. "Death to the priest!" . The fanaticism of the religious wars vibrated through their mockery.英文原著 · 《The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse》
"Unworthy--I! But my worth is a hundred times greater than that of any among you, wretches that you are! You make my millions a reproach to me, but who has helped me to spend them? Thou, cowardly and treacherous comrade, who hidest thy sick pasha-like obesity in the corner of thy stage-box! I made thy fortune along with my own in the days when we shared all things in brotherly community. Thou, pale marquis--I paid a hundred thousand francs at the club in order to save thee from shameful expulsion!英文原著 · 《The Nabob》
My pumpkin's throwing up because Halloween encourages excessive consumption of refined sugar at a time when obesity rates are sky high.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
"Kids! Kids! Roll your way to childhood obesity!" Would you help me try to sell these?美剧 · 《Friends》