Her bosom heaved, and her lips quivered. It was but a moment, and she felt glad that Hazel had turned away from her and saw nothing. A long silence followed this little episode, when she was aroused from her reverie. Patter--pat--pat--patter. She looked up. Pat--patter--patter. Their eyes met. It was the rain.英文原著 · 《Foul Play》
They went into the barn and lay down on the hay. And they were both covered up and beginning to doze when they suddenly heard light footsteps -- patter, patter. Some one was walking not far from the barn, walking a little and stopping, and a minute later, patter, patter again. The dogs began growling.英文原著 · 《The Wife and Other Stories》
(6) When the difference between the patterns of the model and presumed ancestor of the mimic is very great, the female is often alone mimetic; when the difference is comparatively small, both sexes are commonly mimetic. The Nymphaline genus Hypolimnas is a good example. In Hypolimnas itself the females mimic Danainae with patterns very different from those preserved by the non-mimetic males: in the sub-genus Euralia, both sexes resemble the black and white Ethiopian Danaines with patterns not very dissimilar from that which we infer to have existed in the non-mimetic ancestor.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
"Mother," said he, "I have something to tell you." "All right, Jim," replied Sally Patterson, with her boyish air. "It is very important," said Jim. Patterson did not laugh; she did not even smile. She sat down beside Jim's bed and looked seriously at his eager, rapt, shamed little boy-face on the pillow. "Well?" said she, after a minute which seemed difficult to him. Jim coughed. Then he spoke with a blurt. "Mother," said Jim, "by and by, of course not quite yet, but by and by, will you have any objection to Miss Lucy Rose as a daughter?" Even then Sally Patterson did not laugh or even smile.英文原著 · 《The Copy-Cat》
Each brain pattern is adapted for but one type of motion, and so the specific stimuli of the innumerable ceptors play each upon its own brain pattern only. In addition, each brain pattern can react to stimuli applied only within certain limits. Too bright a light blinds; too loud a sound deafens. No mechanism is adapted for waves of light above or below a certain rate of speed, although this range varies in different individuals and in different species according to the training of the individual and the need of the species.英文原著 · 《The Origin and Nature of Emotions》
Then he heard the patter, patter of little hoofs coming down the stream. Nearer and nearer they came. Sometimes they were almost inaudible and again he heard them clearly and distinctly. Then there came a splashing and the faint hollow sound caused by hard hoofs striking the stones in shallow water. Finally the sounds ceased. Cautiously peering from behind the tree Isaac saw a doe standing on the bank fifty yards down the brook. Trembling she had stopped as if in doubt or uncertainty. Her ears pointed straight upward, and she lifted one front foot from the ground like a thoroughbred pointer.英文原著 · 《Betty Zane》
I guess what I'm getting at is I keep hearing you say, "That's not me. I've changed." But how can we believe you've stopped this pattern of behavior if you won't acknowledge this pattern exists?美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》