Yesterday our people got to quarrelling among themselves, and the captain turned a volume of hot steam upon a mass of them and scalded eighty or ninety of them more or less severely. Flakes and ribbons of skin came off some of them. There was wild shrieking and struggling while the vapour enveloped the great throng, and so some who were not scalded got trampled upon and hurt. We do not complain, for my employer says this is the usual way of quieting disturbances on board the ship, and that it is done in the cabins among the Americans every day or two.英文原著 · 《Goldsmiths Friend Abroad Again》
But, late or early, he had come; and what they had to give each other should not be mocked at and lost. The night she had ended by going to Anne's chamber, she had paced her room saying this again and again, all the strength of her being rising in revolt. She had been then a caged tigress of a verity; she had wrung her hands; she had held her palm hard against her leaping heart; she had walked madly to and fro, battling in thought with what seemed awful fate; she had flung herself upon her knees and wept bitter scalding tears.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
From a gap where he paused to rest, a fire-scald " was visible close to the' crest of the adjoining mountain. It was filled with the charred, ghost-like trunks of trees that had been burned standing. Easter's home must be near that, Clayton thought, and he turned toward it by a path that ran along the top of the mountain. After a few hundred yards the path swerved sharply through a dense thicket, and Clayton stopped in wonder.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Europa》
"I don't know," said Rhoda. "I have met so many womanish men in this business. All I know is, that my cheeks burned, and, for once in the fight, scalding tears ran down them. It was as if a friend had spat upon me.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
No voice responded. Cheri's hot tears were scalding her neck. She called for each and every one upon the place, and still no answer came.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
In with 'em. Aw, child, it isn't going to scald you. Go on now. The water'll be stone-cold in a minute." Oh, I don't like winter for a cent. Kitchoo! There, I've gone and caught fresh cold.英文原著 · 《Back Home》
Just two years earlier, he was scalded when his girlfriend threw a boiling pot of hot grits over him in the midst of a fight.美剧 · 《Billions》
I put the paint cans on the floor and pretended that the tea scalded me.美剧 · 《Modern Family》