"The way of ancient ordinance, though it winds, Is yet no devious way. Straight forward goes The lightning's path; and straight the fearful path Of the cannon-ball. Direct it flies and rapid, Shattering that it may reach, and shattering what it reaches. My son! the road the human being travels, That, on which blessing comes and goes, doth follow The river's course, the valley's playful windings, Curves round the corn-field and the hill of vines, Honouring the holy bounds of property! There exists A higher than the warrior's excellence." WALLENSTEIN.英文原著 · 《Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit etc》
While we were still contemplating Betsy's mural flight, an awful crash came from the pantry, and we found Gladiola Murphy weeping among the ruins of five yellow plates. It is sufficiently shattering to my nerves to hear these crashes when I am alone, but it is peculiarly shattering when receiving a call from an unsympathetic trustee.英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
He began to speak very slowly: "The last time I was here I boasted that I had yet to meet my first great defeat in life . that there was nothing stronger in the world than a man's will and purpose . that if ideals got shattered, we shattered them . that I would go on doing with my life as I had planned, be what I wished, have what I wanted."英文原著 · 《The Choir Invisible》
--Shatter, shatter, O my brethren, those old tables of the pious! Tatter the maxims of the world-maligners!--英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
It was several weeks before her curiosity was satisfied, and then it was revealed that the new occupant had neither wife nor children. He was a solitary man with no family at all, and it was evident that he was shattered in health and unhappy in mind.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
Now the awakening had come. The dream was shattered. For the first time her eye was turned inward, where a flood of light brought into terrible distinctness the tumult that began to rage so suddenly within.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Europa》
because the suit said you had a shattered arm and a broken hip.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》