Once upon a time there lived a poor widow who had one little boy. At first sight you would not have thought that he was different from a thousand other little boys; but then you noticed that by his side hung the scabbard of a sword, and as the boy grew bigger the scabbard grew bigger too. The sword which belonged to the scabbard was found by the little boy sticking out of the ground in the garden, and every day he pulled it up to see if it would go into the scabbard. But though it was plainly becoming longer and longer, it was some time before the two would fit.英文原著 · 《The Crimson Fairy Book》
'It is thy scabbard that hath rusted thy sword; give it to me that I may take out the wooden sides of it and put in new ones.' And he took the scabbard in one hand and the sword in the other, and came and stood behind the giant, as if he would have sheathed the sword in the scabbard. But with it he struck a blow at the head of the giant, and it rolled from his body. After that they despoiled the castle of its gold and jewels, and returned, bearing the sword of the giant, to Arthur's court.英文原著 · 《The Lilac Fairy Book》
But soon, especially in the evenings, the shortening of the days could be perceived. Some plants, which had put forth all their blossoms in July, began to look yellow and dying, and the violet scabious by the wayside bloomed for the second time, smaller now, and longer-stalked; the last days of August drew nigh, and the first return-ship from Iceland hove in sight one evening at the cape of Pors-Even. The feast of the returners began.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
``The scabbard of the sword was too glittering for the regulations''--the ghost of a smile hovered on Conwell's lips--``and I could not wear it, and could only wear a plain one for service and keep this hanging in my tent on the tent-pole. John Ring used to handle it adoringly, and kept it polished to brilliancy.--It's dull enough these many years,'' he added, somberly. ``To Ring it represented not only his captain, but the very glory and pomp of war.英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
``But, unknown to everybody, and unnoticed, John Ring had dashed back to my tent. I think he was able to make his way back because he just looked like a mere boy; but however that was, he got past the Confederates into my tent and took down, from where it was hanging on the tent- pole, my bright, gold-scabbarded sword.英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
------- Canibus pigris, scabieque vestusta Laevibus, et siccae lambentibus ora lucernae, Nomen erit, Pardus, Tigris, Leo; si quid adhuc est Quod fremit in terris violentius.英文原著 · 《All For Love》
This is not the sad man as suave and cynical anti-hero, but a barely scabbed-over wound of a person." "Barely scabbed-over." Congratulations.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
Might as well get my revenge and rip the scab off this fucking thing between us at the same time.美剧 · 《Billions》
And for Shaun, that means less training wheels and more scabbed knees.美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》
And if that's the last conversation he has with his dad, then -- then all I've succeeded in doing is ripping open an old scab, and this whole trip was a mistake.美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》