IN one of his wanderings through the wooded lands, Iktomi saw a rare bird sitting high in a tree-top. Its long fan-like tail feathers had caught all the beautiful colors of the rainbow. Handsome in the glistening summer sun sat the bird of rainbow plumage. Iktomi hurried hither with his eyes fast on the bird.英文原著 · 《Old Indian Legends》
I never went to a hop with a price on my head before. A thousand pounds too! Quite a new sensation. It settles the question. And we'll enter Rainbow for the handicap. He ought to be good enough for anything they're likely to have.'
`Captain Starlight's Rainbow, 9 st. 8 lb.,' I said, `with Dick Marston to lead him up to the judge's box. How will that wash?英文原著 · 《Robbery Under Arms》
But he showed it for nearly ten years before the genius came, and though no doubt it helped him when genius had come, the two things are in his case, as in most, pretty sufficiently distinct. What the genius itself was I must do my best to indicate hereafter, always beseeching the reader to remember that all genius is in its essence and quiddity indefinable. You can no more get close to it than you can get close to the rainbow, and your most scientific explanation of it will always leave as much of the heart of the fact unexplained as the scientific explanation of the rainbow leaves of that.英文原著 · 《The Human Comedy》
"She was," said the Giantess; "but now she's a canary-bird. One day after a rain, Polychrome danced off the Rainbow and fell asleep on a little mound in this valley, not far from my castle. The sun came out and drove the Rainbow away, and before Poly wakened, I stole out and transformed her into a canary-bird in a gold cage studded with diamonds. The cage was so she couldn't fly away. I expected she'd sing and talk and we'd have good times together; but she has proved no company for me at all. Ever since the moment of her transformation, she has refused to speak a single word."英文原著 · 《The Tin Woodman of Oz》
"A Canary-Bird on a Rainbow wouldn't be so bad," asserted the Tin Owl, winking and blinking with his round tin eyes, "so if you can manage to find your Rainbow again you need have little to worry about."英文原著 · 《The Tin Woodman of Oz》
"I hate to be cooped up in a palace," she said to Ozma, "and of course the first time I meet my Rainbow I shall return to my own dear home in the skies, where my fairy sisters are even now awaiting me and my father is cross because I get lost so often. But I can find my Rainbow just as quickly while traveling in the Munchkin Country as I could if living in the Emerald City -- or any other place in Oz -- so I shall go with the Tin Woodman and help him woo Nimmie Amee."英文原著 · 《The Tin Woodman of Oz》
♪ Somewhere over the rainbow ♪ Over the rainbow ♪ Skies are blue ♪ That was great.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
We just came from lunch at rainbow room, And I'm wearing my best fila tracksuit.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Gravity, the laws of motion, the calculus, white light composed of all the colors of the rainbow. gravity, the laws of motion, the calculus, white light composed of all the colors of the rainbow.演讲 · 《Beauty, truth and ... physics ~ Murray Gell-Mann》