This night they shelled us again heavily for some hours --
the same shorts, hits, overs on percussion, and great yellow-green air bursts. One feels awfully irritated by the constant din -- a mixture of anger
and apprehension.英文原著 · 《In Flanders Fields And Other Poems》
The same zeal made him always ready to listen to any new suggestion which promised to be useful, at a period of life when many men find it hard to learn new methods and accept new doctrines. Few of his generation became so accomplished as he in the arts of direct exploration; coming straight from the Parisian experts, I have examined many patients with him, and have had frequent opportunities of observing his skill in percussion and auscultation.英文原著 · 《Medical Essays》
The defects in the labour of Aristotle are three: one, that there be but a few of many; another, that their elenches are not annexed; and the third, that he conceived but a part of the use of them: for their use is not only in probation, but much more in impression. For many forms are equal in signification which are differing in impression; as the difference is great in the piercing of that which is sharp and that which is flat, though the strength of the percussion be the same: for there is no man but will be a little more raised by hearing it said, YOUR ENEMIES WILL BE GLAD OF THIS:英文原著 · 《The Advancement of Learning》
To which she added an inclination of the head which resembled nothing so much as a hammer which much percussion upon an anvil has wrought to a fine polish.英文原著 · 《Through Russia》
What about the opening percussion riffs in the Supremes' version of "You Can't Hurry Love" and Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life"? Aren't they identical?美剧 · 《The Good Wife》