His eyes narrowed and his brows contracted. "What experience you had? Who you been with, and how many years?" He snapped the questions at Jimmy with the rapidity of machine-gun fire. "I have the necessary ability," replied Jimmy, "to manage your business."
"How many years have you had in the sash, door and blind business?" snapped Mr. Brown. "I have never had any experience in the sash, door and blind business," replied Jimmy. "I didn't come here to make sash, doors and blinds. I came here to manage your business."
Mr.英文原著 · 《The Efficiency Expert》
Taro had his in his hand. "I beat!" Taro called to her. "You haven't got your sash on yet," Take called back. "You haven't either," said Taro. "We both of us didn't beat then," said Take. "Come here and I'll tie yours for you." Taro backed up to Take, and she tied his sash in a twinkling. Then she held up her sash. "Now, you tie mine for me, Taro," she said.英文原著 · 《The Japanese Twins》
But her woman's eye had already detected the sash. "Oh!" she said;
"your sash betrays you."英文原著 · 《New Arabian Nights》
Taro thought it over. Then he said, "Well, come behind the lantern, and just this once I'll do it. But don't you tell, and don't you ask me to again." "Cross my heart, Taro," Take promised. "I won't tell. You are a good, kind boy." Taro tied the sash the best he could, but it looked very queer. It looked so queer that when, after a while, their Mother saw it she said, "Come here, my child; your sash is tied upside down! But I know it is hard to reach behind you. I must teach you how to make a nice big bow all by yourself." And Take never told her that Taro did it.英文原著 · 《The Japanese Twins》
"It's quite proper at leave taking. Eh, you devil! That's a merry life! Listen, Sasha. They say that women of your kind are greedy for money; are even thieves."
"Let them say," said Sasha, calmly. "Don't you feel offended?" asked Foma, with curiosity. "But you are not greedy. It's advantageous to you to be with me.英文原著 · 《The Man Who Was Afraid》
I am rich, and yet you are going away; that shows you're not greedy."
"I?" Sasha thought awhile and said with a wave of the hand: "Perhaps I am not greedy--what of it? I am not of the very lowest of the street women. And against whom shall I feel a grudge? Let them say whatever they please. It will be only human talk, not the bellowing of bulls. And human holiness and honesty are quite familiar to me! Eh, how well I know them! If I were chosen as a judge, I would acquit the dead only l" and bursting into malicious laughter, Sasha said: "Well, that will do, we've spoken enough nonsense.英文原著 · 《The Man Who Was Afraid》