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》
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》
"I've had my eye on it for years."
She slipped her hand in his. "I want you to give me that Dream of yours; that you built for my mother, and that all went wrong. They call it Allway's Folly; and it makes me so mad. I want to make it all come true. May I try?"
It was there that he came to her. She stood beneath the withered trees, beside the shattered fountain. The sad-faced ghosts peeped out at her from the broken windows of the little silent houses. She wondered later why she had not been surprised to see him.英文原著 · 《All Roads Lead to Calvary》
Hovstad. That is why I want to seize this opportunity, and try if I cannot manage to put a little virility into these well- intentioned people for once. The idol of Authority must be shattered in this town. This gross and inexcusable blunder about the water supply must be brought home to the mind of every municipal voter.英文原著 · 《An Enemy of the People》
And hiding it in his bosom, he drew a knife from his pocket. He had not time to open it. The dog, with bristling hair and foaming jaws, was already within three steps of him, gathering himself to spring upon him; but he had scarcely raised himself from the ground when he fell back with his head shattered. The hatchet which Ivan carried at his girdle had come down upon him like a flash. The terrible animal vainly attempted to rise, rolled writhing in the dust, and breathed out his life with a hoarse and fearful howl.英文原著 · 《Andre Cornelis》
because the suit said you had a shattered arm and a broken hip.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Yeah, that's why his head stayed on, But his jaw... Shattered.美剧 · 《Billions》
- Not at all. - Shattered dreams of playing Adelaide in her high school's production of Guys and Dolls because the musical director sees her as more of a Rusty Charlie?美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》