To stand up there and be one of the choir, seemed to me very little short of promotion to the ranks of cherubim and seraphim. I quite envied that tall, pretty sister of mine. I was sure that I should open my mouth wide, if I could only be in her place. the years proved that, much as I loved the hymns, there was no music in me to give them voice, except to very indulgent ears.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
It may have been ten years ago, it may have been fifteen--and just how long it was before the war makes no matter--that I received an invitation to join a society for the promotion of more friendly relations between the United States and England.英文原著 · 《A Straight Deal》
"It would mean sentiment from here to yonder," he thought, "and correspondence enough to wear out a deputy second-clerk on his promotion. And yet if I really cared----"英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
The second time he saw Lincoln was when he went to Washington to plead for the life of one of his men who had been condemned to death for sleeping on post. He was still but a captain (his promotion to a colonelcy was still to come), a youth, and was awed by going into the presence of the man he worshiped. And his voice trembles a little, even now, as he tells of how pleasantly Lincoln looked up from his desk, and how cheerfully he asked his business with him, and of how absorbedly Lincoln then listened to his tale, although, so it appeared, he already knew of the main outline.英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
I was surprised to learn that your engagement with Mr. Barrett is terminated, and am sorry for the cause, although I believe the result will be to your advantage. Your chances for promotion will be better in a company that is not confined to so limited a repertoire as mine, in which so few opportunities occur for the proper exercise of youthful talent. A frequent change of role, and of the lighter sort--especially such as one does not like forcing one's self to use the very utmost of his ability in the performance of--is the training requisite for a mastery of the actor's art.英文原著 · 《Autobiographies》
Ere ever he is himself aware, he will be rapt up into that life where saints and angels seek not their own will, labour not for their own profit or promotion, listen not for their own praises, but find their blessedness, the half of which had not here been told them, in glorifying God and in enjoying Him for ever.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-1》
Because I spent nine years killing myself for your client, and got passed over for promotion after promotion in favor of less-qualified men.美剧 · 《Suits》
My own boss? I can't wait to sleep with myself to get a promotion.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
I'd love to give you that promotion, Beverly, But first, you'll have to do something…for me.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Hi, Eli. So any idea when they'll decide who's getting the junior executive promotion, or-美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》