"To prove the falsity of these rumours, doctor, I may mention, as a secret, that I am moving to Kislovodsk to-morrow" . "And Princess Mary, too?"
"No, she remains here another week" . "So you are not going to get married?" . "Doctor, doctor! Look at me! Am I in the least like a bridegroom, or any such thing?"
"I am not saying so. But you know there are occasions . ." he added, with a crafty smile -- "in which an honourable man is obliged to marry, and there are mothers who, to say the least, do not prevent such occasions.英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
Those who fail in guessing it, fail because they are over-ingenious, and cast about for an answer that shall suit their own notion of the gravity of the occasion and of their own dignity, rather than the occasion itself.英文原著 · 《Abraham Lincoln》
When the vices and weaknesses, frequently exhibited by those who govern in America, are closely examined, the prosperity of the people occasions - but improperly occasions - surprise. Elected magistrates do not make the American democracy flourish; it flourishes because the magistrates are elective.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-2》
The latter years of his life Lord Rosse passed in comparative seclusion; he occasionally went to London for a brief sojourn during the season, and he occasionally went for a cruise in his yacht; but the greater part of the year he spent at Birr Castle, devoting himself largely to the study of political and social questions, and rarely going outside the walls of his demesne, except to church on Sunday mornings. He died on October 31, 1867.英文原著 · 《Great Astronomers》
During his stay in London, Barnum met Thackeray several times, and on one occasion dined with him. He repeatedly expressed his obligations to Barnum for the advice and assistance he had given him on the occasion of his first lecturing visit to the United States.英文原著 · 《Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum》
The hostess, seeing his dilemma, would say: "It is rather difficult to read here evenings; the proverb says 'you must have a ship at sea in order to be able to burn two candles at once;' we never have an extra candle except on extra occasions." These extra occasions occur, perhaps, twice a year. In this way the good woman saves five, six, or ten dollars in that time; but the information which might be derived from having the extra light would, of course, far outweigh a ton of candles.英文原著 · 《Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum》