When Edna knocked at Mademoiselle Reisz's front room door and entered, she discovered that person standing beside the window, engaged in mending or patching an old prunella gaiter. The little musician laughed all over when she saw Edna. Her laugh consisted of a contortion of the face and all the muscles of the body. She seemed strikingly homely, standing there in the afternoon light. She still wore the shabby lace and the artificial bunch of violets on the side of her head.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
Now, it was the chief misery of Marcus that, sleeping, as he did, in the room behind the store, he had become so impregnated with this curious composite smell that it followed him like an odoriferous halo, and procured him a number of unpleasant nicknames. The principal ingredient was salted herring; but there was also a suspicion of tarred ropes, plug tobacco, prunes, dried codfish, and oiled tarpaulin.英文原著 · 《Boyhood in Norway》
"Seems kinda queer, don't it, Cash, that nobody stepped in and filed on any claims here?" Bud dumped half a kettle of boiled beans into a basin and set it on the table. "Want any prunes to- night, Cash?"英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
Cash did not want prunes, which was just as well, seeing there were none cooked. He sat down and ate, with his mind and his eyes clinging to the grayish, veined fragments of rock lying on the table beside his plate.英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
So Cash untied the candle and the fur and the prunes, threw them across the room, and peevishly stuck the tree in the fireplace.英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
To return to my mail: There arrives an advertisement from a wholesale grocer, saying that he has exceptionally economical brands of oatmeal, rice, flour, prunes, and dried apples that he packs specially for prisons and charitable institutions. Sounds nutritious, doesn't it?英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
Prune juice, prune juice you are so sweet I love you all the way from my head down to my-- Goddamn it!美剧 · 《Suits》
Five years ago, if somebody'd said to me, "Here's a tomato that looks like a prune"...美剧 · 《Friends》
Look, I need more sleep than you, and ever since they cut down that stupid prune tree, the sun has been right in my eyes every morning.美剧 · 《Modern Family》