What was it? Was it a presentiment--that mysterious presentiment
which takes hold of the senses of men who have witnessed
something which, to them, is inexplicable? Perhaps? Who knows?英文原著 · 《Selected Writings of guy de maupassant》
Ellida. no, it is not so. The joy is, I suppose, something like our joy at the long pleasant summer days--it has the presentiment of the dark days coming. And it is this presentiment that casts its shadows over the joy of men, just as the driving clouds cast their shadow over the fjords. It lies there so bright and blue--and of a sudden.英文原著 · 《The Lady From The Sea》
A sallow boy with bright red hair, sitting in the fourth row, shook his fist at me furtively several times during the morning. I had a presentiment I should have trouble with that boy some day-a presentiment subsequently realized.英文原著 · 《The Story of a Bad Boy》
Has destiny brought us together again in the Caucasus, or has she come hither on purpose, knowing that she would meet me? And how shall we meet? And then, is it she? My presentiments have never deceived me. There is not a man in the world over whom the past has acquired such a power as over me. Every recollection of bygone grief or joy strikes my soul with morbid effect, and draws forth ever the same sounds. I am stupidly constituted: I forget nothing -- no- thing! After dinner, about six o'clock, I went on to the boulevard.英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
You want to pay me back in the same coin, to wound my vanity -- you will not succeed! And if you declare war on me, I will be merciless! In the course of the evening, I purposely tried a few times to join in their conversation, but she met my remarks rather coldly, and, at last, I retired in pretended vexation. Princess Mary was triumphant, Grushnitski likewise. Triumph, my friends, and be quick about it! You will not have long to triumph! It cannot be otherwise. I have a presentiment.英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
He had a presentiment that he was to die by one of these trees, -- that some day, in chopping, the tree would fall upon and crush him as it did his father the day they brought him back to the camp on a litter of pine boughs.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》