"Without my trunk!" returned the child in protest. Her father looked again at the watch he held in his hand. The order to go ashore was sending all visitors down the gang plank. "By George, I guess you're going, too," he muttered between his teeth, when suddenly his father's tall form came striding through the crowd. Evringham was carrying a long pasteboard box, and seemed breathless. "Horse fell down. Devil of a time! Roses for your wife."
Harry grasped the box, touched his father's hand, kissed the child, and strode up the plank amid the frowns of officials.英文原著 · 《Jewel》
"And I refuse," cried Michael. "Rule Britannia!" squeaked Curly. The infuriated pirates buffeted them in the mouth; and Hook roared out, "That seals your doom. Bring up their mother. Get the plank ready."
They were only boys, and they went white as they saw Jukes and Cecco preparing the fatal plank. But they tried to look brave when Wendy was brought up. No words of mine can tell you how Wendy despised those pirates. To the boys there was at least some glamour in the pirate calling; but all that she saw was that the ship had not been tidied for years.英文原著 · 《Peter Pan》
"Listen! Do you see high up; that little shed built of planks? That is used by the carvers and stone-cutters. Well, this little house, a couple of hundred feet above us, has a kind of a window; well, if this window and the planks below it were cut nearly through, any one leaning against it would be very likely to fall into the street and perhaps to hurt himself."英文原著 · 《The Champdoce Mystery》
He groaned, but faced the plank; he knew this would be the slowest affair of all. The peasant surveyed him from the further side. "Don't be afraid!" cried the peasant in his clumsy Valaisian French, and returned, returning along the plank that seemed quite sufficiently loaded without him, extending a charitable hand. "Damn!" whispered Benham, but he took the hand. Afterwards, rather ignobly, he tried to explain in his public-school French. "Pas de peur," he said. "Pas de peur. Mais la tete, n'a pas l'habitude." The peasant, failing to understand, assured him again that there was no danger.英文原著 · 《The Research Magnificent》
"Let every man take a plank," he said, "and hold it in front of him. Then, should anyone fall in (which God forbid!), the plank-ends will catch upon the ice to either side of him, and hold him up. Also, every man must avoid cracks in the ice. Yes, and is there a rope handy? Here, Narodetz! Reach me that spirit-level. Is everyone ready? I will walk first, and next there must come--well, which is the heaviest?--you, soldier, and then Mokei, and then the Morduine, and then Boev, and then Mishuk, and then Sashok, and then Makarei, the lightest of all.英文原著 · 《Through Russia》
I saw the place to small advantage, for the stained glass of the windows, which are fine, was under repair, and much of it was masked with planks.英文原著 · 《A Little Tour In France》
I worked it out so that there are Two different words for spoon: "Planko" and "Janko." "Planko" is a spoon with food, "Janko" is a spoon without food.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
Once you change out the sails and all the planks that make up the hull, whose ship is it?美剧 · 《Billions》
* [IN PIRATE VOICE] So you made her walk the plank, aye, matey?美剧 · 《Friends》
Three hours on a splintery plank with parents squealing with delight as their children maim each other.美剧 · 《Modern Family》