"Et nous jongleurs inutiles, frivoles joueurs de luth!". Useless jugglers, frivolous players on the lute! Must we so describe ourselves, we, the producers, season by season, of so many hundreds of "remarkable" works of fiction?--for though, when we take up the remarkable works of our fellows, we "really cannot read them!" the Press and the advertisements of our publishers tell us that they are "remarkable."英文原著 · 《Concerning Letters》
"Very big bones for a rabbit, Sam," he remarked doubtfully. Sam looked away. "Very big rabbits round here," he remarked. "Best keep pot. Send men away."
Trent nodded, and the men withdrew. "Stew all right," Sam whispered confidentially. "You eat him. No fear.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
But this I will say; that when I see ceaseless and unscrupulous armament, " etc. Please don't do it. Decide to make a remark or not to make a remark. But don't fancy that you have somehow softened the saying of a thing by having just promised not to say it.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
My little story is not a remarkable one, for I have never attempted remarkable things. In the words of one of our honored elder writers, given in reply to a youthful aspirant who had asked for some points of her "literary career,"--"I never had a career."英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
He was telling Vere about a paper-chase at Capodimonte, which had started from the Royal Palace. His vivacity, his excitement made a paper-chase seem one of the most brilliant and remarkable events in a brilliant and remarkable world. He had been the hare. And such a hare! Since hares were first created and placed in the Garden of Eden there had been none like unto him. He told of his cunning exploits. The fingers of Artois moved faster. Hermione glanced at his face.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
It was in a very brief visit that Beecher managed to see England as she was: a remarkable letter for its insight, and more remarkable still for its moderation, when you consider that it was written in the midst of our Civil War, while loyal Americans were not only enraged with England, but wounded to the quick as well. When a man can do this--can have passionate convictions in passionate times, and yet keep his judgment unclouded, wise, and calm, he serves his country well.英文原著 · 《A Straight Deal》
I have no intention of using your candid remarks or even your on-the-record remarks美剧 · 《The News Room》
Those remarks have been taken out of context over the years-- Feel free to put the remarks in the proper context.美剧 · 《The News Room》
My remarks would pale beside those of someone who knows him best.美剧 · 《Billions》
And I apologize for the remarks I made to and about him.美剧 · 《Billions》