31 the destruction of man (cp. 4-5) by storms which spoil his crops begins: the remaining verses are parenthetical, describing the snake `which bears its young in the spring season'. (46) i.e. the snake; as in "Works and Days" l. 524, the "Boneless One" is the cuttle-fish. (47) c. 1110-1180 A.D. His chief work was a poem, "Chiliades", in accentual verse of nearly 13,000 lines.英文原著 · 《Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica》
It should be noticed, also, that the Duke values his wife's picture wholly as a picture, not as the "counterfeit presentment" and reminder of a sweet and lovely woman, who might have blessed his life, if he had been capable of being blessed. It is to him a picture by a great artist, and he values it only as such. He says, parenthetically, "since none puts by the curtain I have drawn for you, but I." It's too precious a work of art to be entrusted to anybody else.英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
So the boy is driven to the street as his domain. It is his playground. And here he encounters the policeman. Of 717 children arrested in one month in New York City, more than half were arrested for playing games. Parenthetically, the fact may be quoted that in this children's chief playground in a period of ten months 67 children were killed and 196 injured.英文原著 · 《Library Work with Children》
I can make my mother happy. Nobody else can. I think I'm getting rather conceited about it."
"Yes, dear; I find you insufferable," remarked Aunt Barbara parenthetically. "Then you must just bear it. The thing is"--Michael took a moment to find the words he searched for--"the thing is I want to be wanted. Well, it's no light thing to be wanted by your mother, even if--"
He sat down on the sofa by his aunt. "Aunt Barbara, how ironically gifts come," he said. "This was rather a sinister way of giving, that my mother should want me like this just as her brain was failing.英文原著 · 《Michael》
And before he knew where he was, and in a mere parenthetical declaration of liberality, he surprised himself by conceding her demand for Newnham even before she had repeated it. It helped his case wonderfully.英文原著 · 《Soul of a Bishop》
It is only fair, however, to add here, parenthetically, that it is neither just nor considerate to a conscientious stenographer for an employer to delay his dictation until the end of the day's work, when, merely by judicious management of his affairs and time, he can give his dictation directly after opening his morning mail. There are two sides to every question; but sometimes the side of the stenographer is not kept in mind by the employer.英文原著 · 《The Americanization of Edward Bok》
Yes, I thought so, too, but there's a parenthetical here: "My question is based on the two photos." I think the juror is commenting on the ring there... and not there, and the fact Ms. Schweikert is wearing it now.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》