There was something preternatural about it--it was magic at work, a counterfeit presentment of the power of God; or rather it was a fugitive image of a reign itself so fugitive.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
On the sofa by the fire, opposite the great armchair, the children's mother sat among a heap of scattered garments, with a little scarlet shoe in her hand. She seemed to have given herself up completely to the enjoyment of the moment; wavering discipline had relaxed into a sweet smile engraved upon her lips. At the age of six-and-thirty, or thereabouts, she was a beautiful woman still, by reason of the rare perfection of the outlines of her face, and at this moment light and warmth and happiness filled it with preternatural brightness.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
"I will be silent," Helene answered with a preternatural effort. "I am a mother; I know that Moina ought not . Where is my child?"英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
The anchor leaped overboard several times and stopt the boat. A cheese was taken out of the press, and crumbled all over the floor; a piece of iron stuck into the wall, and a kettle hung thereon. Several cocks of hay, mow'd near the house, were taken up and hung upon the trees, and others made into small whisps, and scattered about the house. A man was much hurt by some of the stones. He was a Quaker, and suspected that a woman, who charged him with injustice in detaining some land from here, did, by witchcraft, occasion these preternatural occurrences. However, at last they came to an end."英文原著 · 《An Old Town By The Sea》
Blancard records an instance of preternatural exit of semen by the bowel. Heers mentions a similar case caused by urethral fistula. Ingham mentions the escape of semen through the testicle by means of a fistula. Demarquay is the authority on bloody semen. Andouard mentions an instance of blue bile in a woman, blue flakes being found in her vomit. There was no trace of copper to be found in this case. Andouard says that the older physicians frequently spoke of this occurrence. Rhodius speaks of the sweat being sweet after eating honey; the Ephemerides and Paullini also mention it.英文原著 · 《Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine》
The bore whom others fear and flee, I do not fear, I do not flee him; I pass him calm as calm can be; I do not cut--I do not see him! And with my feeble eyes and dim, Where YOU see patchy fields and fences, For me the mists of Turner swim - MY "azure distance" soon commences! Nay, as I blink about the streets Of this befogged and miry city, Why, almost every girl one meets Seems preternaturally pretty! "Try spectacles," one's friends intone; "You'll see the world correctly through them." But I have visions of my own, And not for worlds would I undo them.英文原著 · 《Ballads in Blue China and Verses and Translations》
He's still working for Alicia, and he's preternaturally calm.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
Only if you think an overwhelming majority of Americans are preternaturally stupid.美剧 · 《The News Room》