Talbot has translated[16] a "wild chant" which he names "The Song of the Seven Spirits." 1. There are seven! There are seven! In the depths of the ocean there are seven! In the heights of the heaven there are seven! In the ocean stream in a palace they were born. Male they are not: female they are not! Wives they have not!英文原著 · 《A History of Science-1》
"Thirty!" a third. "Thirty-five!" a fourth, and so up to seventy-five, less than half of what it was worth. "I'm bid seventy-five! I'm bid seventy-five!" called the auctioneer, loudly. "Any other offers? Going once at seventy-five; am I offered eighty? Going twice at seventy-five, and"--he paused, one hand raised dramatically. Then he brought it down with a slap in the palm of the other--"sold to Mr.英文原著 · 《The Financier》
Children are not born to them! Rules they have not! Government they know not! Prayers they hear not! There are seven! There are seven! Twice over there are seven! The tablets make frequent allusion to these seven spirits.英文原著 · 《A History of Science-1》
Number, too, is part of the supersensuous world that is thoroughly religious. We can see and touch seven apples, but seven itself, that wonderful thing that shifts from object to object, giving it its SEVENness, that living thing, for it begets itself anew in multiplication--surely seven is a fit denizen of the upper-world. Originally all numbers dwelt there, and a certain supersensuous sanctity still clings to seven and three. We still say "Holy, Holy, Holy," and in some mystic way feel the holier.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
Nearly seven pages are devoted to showing that I was wrong in saying I would not be "understood to imply that there exists a doubt in the mind of any well-informed member of the medical profession as to the fact that puerperal fever is sometimes communicated from one person to another, both directly and indirectly." I will devote seven lines to these seven pages, which seven lines, if I may say it without offence, are, as it seems to me, six more than are strictly necessary.英文原著 · 《Medical Essays》
And he was upon the crest of the wave. Now the forethought, the shrewdness, and the prompt action of those early spring days were beginning to tell. Confident, secure, unassailable, Jadwin plunged in. Every week the swirl of the Pit increased in speed, every week the demands of Europe for American wheat grew more frequent; and at the end of the month the price--which had fluctuated between seventy-five and seventy-eight--in a sudden flurry rushed to seventy- nine, to seventy-nine and a half, and closed, strong, at the even eighty cents.英文原著 · 《The Pit》
In Manhattan the asking price is at least seven, so we could sell them for seven, and then pocket the difference.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
The one that started seven minutes ago? It started seven minutes ago.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
Great. Now the score's seven to almost seven.美剧 · 《Friends》
Great! That means you'll be available for my one-man quick-change version of "Seven brides for seven brothers." I'm gonna change my vote.美剧 · 《Modern Family》