"And please give me a chance! You'll spoil it all if you stay!"
"I'm going to stay right here," was his grim response. She realized there was no changing him. She glimpsed a closet door behind him, and caught at the chance of saving at least a fragment of her drama. "Stay, then but, Larry, please give me a chance to do what I want to do! Please!" By this time she had dragged him across the room and had started to unlock the closet. "Just wait in here--and keep quiet! Please!"
He took the key from her fumbling hands, unlocked the door, and slipped the key into his pocket.英文原著 · 《Children of the Whirlwind》
Both are pained. And are they equally pained? I should imagine that the cowards are more pained. And are they better pleased at the enemy's departure? I dare say. Then are the foolish and the wise and the cowards and the brave all pleased and pained, as you were saying, in nearly equal degree; but are the cowards more pleased and pained than the brave? But surely the wise and brave are the good, and the foolish and the cowardly are the bad? Then the good and the bad are pleased and pained in a nearly equal degree?英文原著 · 《Gorgias》
Callicles and I are agreed about that. And is the pleasant to be pursued for the sake of the good? or the good for the sake of the pleasant? The pleasant is to be pursued for the sake of the good. And that is pleasant at the presence of which we are pleased, and that is good at the presence of which we are good? To be sure. And we-good, and all good things whatever are good when some virtue is present in us or them? That, Callicles, is my conviction.英文原著 · 《Gorgias》
And you shall go to bed when you please, get up when you please, talk when you please, read when you please. Howells may even go to New York Saturday if she feels that she must, but if some gentle, unannoying coaxing can beguile her into putting that off a few days, we shall be more than glad, for I do wish she and Mrs. Clemens could have a good square chance to get acquainted with each other. But first and last and all the time, we want you to feel untrammeled and wholly free from restraint, here.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 2》
He turned around to his companions. "What is the greatest wonder, in all this wonderful scene?" he demanded. "Acquaint us," said Maskull. "All that you see is born from pleasure, and moves on, from pleasure to pleasure. Nowhere is right to be found. It is Shaping's world."
"There is another wonder," said Tydomin, and she pointed her finger toward the sky overhead. A small cloud, so low down that it was perhaps not more than five hundred feet above them, was sailing along in front of the dark wall of cliff. It was in the exact shape of an open human hand, with downward-pointing fingers.英文原著 · 《A Voyage to Arcturus》
Please, please don't! She'll be going soon. She needn't ever know--about me. I want her always to think well of me. Dick, I beg of you. Oh, the fear of her knowing has been the worst of all! Please don't go!"
"Nell, I'm sorry. I hate to hurt you.英文原著 · 《Desert Gold》