It was plain enough that the top of the Exposition had not received the praise it deserved. "Think how crude that scene would have been if it had presented a straggling mass of roofs. And even as it is, with its graceful lines, if it were lacking in color it would seem crude. Perhaps it will help us to realize how unsightly most of the roofs of our houses are, and how unfinished. There's no reason in the world why they should be. The Greeks and the Romans had the right idea. They were very sensitive to lack of finish. They felt the charm of decorated roofs.英文原著 · 《The City of Domes》
Thus then the Houses of the Mark held their High-tide of Returning under the Wolfing Roof with none to blame them or make them afraid: and the moon rose and the summer night wore on towards dawn, and within the Roof and without was there feasting and singing and harping and the voice of abundant joyance: for without the Roof feasted the thralls and the strangers, and the Roman war-captives.英文原著 · 《The House of the Wolfings》
Barney did not hesitate. He started on a rapid trot toward the adjoining roof. From that he clambered to a higher one beyond. On he went, now leaping narrow courts, now dropping to low sheds and again clambering to the heights of the higher buildings, until he had come almost to the end of the row. Suddenly, behind him he heard a hoarse shout, fol- lowed by the report of a rifle. With a whir, a bullet flew a few inches above his head. He had gained the last roof-- a large, level roof--and at the shot he turned to see how near to him were his pursuers. Fatal turn!英文原著 · 《The Mad King》
They have found me! Quick! to the roof!" He struggled to his feet, with that strength which imparts itself to dying men, super-human while it lasts. He threw one arm around her neck. "Help me!"
And thus they gained the hall, mounted the flight to the roof, he groaning and urging, she sobbing, hysterical, and frenzied. She climbed the ladder with him, threw back the trap, and helped him on the roof. "Now leave me!" he said, kissing her hand. She gave him her lips, and went down to her rooms, and waited and waited.英文原著 · 《The Puppet Crown》
Yes, this was another world. The room had a slanting roof and was whitewashed. The whitewash was dingy and had fallen off in places. There was a rusty grate, an old iron bedstead, and a hard bed covered with a faded coverlet. Some pieces of furniture too much worn to be used downstairs had been sent up. Under the skylight in the roof, which showed nothing but an oblong piece of dull gray sky, there stood an old battered red footstool. Sara went to it and sat down. She seldom cried.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
How the meeting-house rafters used to ring to that last hymn, sung to the tune of "Amsterdam!" Sometimes it seemed as if the very roof was lifted off,--nay, the roof of the sky itself--as if the music had burst an entrance for our souls into the heaven of heavens.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
We're illegal tenants, and I'd rather have a noisy roof over my head than no roof.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Had a good roof over my head, and I've had that good roof taken away from me.美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》
If I could only get up on the roof, then I could break in through the skylight美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
I was tagging a building nearby, and while I was on the roof I saw that your light was on,美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Green roofs. Bill McDonough covered that last night, so I won't dwell on that too much. Green roofs. Bill McDonough covered that last night, so I won't dwell on that too much.演讲 · 《The route to a sustainable future ~ Alex Steffen》