Batjer accompanied her suggestions nearly always with a slight sniff and cough. Berenice could see that the mere fact of this conversation made a slight difference. In Mrs. Batjer's world poverty was a dangerous topic. The mere odor of it suggested a kind of horror--perhaps the equivalent of error or sin. Others, Berenice now suspected, would take affright even more swiftly. Subsequent to this, however, she made one slight investigation of those realms that govern professional theatrical engagements. It was a most disturbing experience.英文原著 · 《The Titan》
It may be claimed that men of integrity would not become corrupt in the political grinding mill. Perhaps not; but such men would be absolutely helpless to exert the slightest influence in behalf of labor, as indeed has been shown in numerous instances. The State is the economic master of its servants. Good men, if such there be, would either remain true to their political faith and lose their economic support, or they would cling to their economic master and be utterly unable to do the slightest good. The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
"Yes, it was a slight indisposition, which had no results, so slight that it seemed unnecessary to call in a doctor. Madame de Lamotte appeared preoccupied and anxious. I think her mental attitude influenced her health."英文原著 · 《Derues》
Miss Liston started slightly; also she colored very slightly, and she answered, looking away from me across the lawn:英文原著 · 《Frivolous Cupid》
The action was so deliberate that I could not doubt he meant to slight me; and I paused where I was, divided between grief and indignation, a mark for all those glances and whispered gibes in which courtiers indulge on such occasions. The slight was not rendered less serious by the fact that the King was walking with my two colleagues; so that I alone seemed to be out of his confidence, as one soon to be out of his councils also.英文原著 · 《From the Memoirs of a Minister of France》
Now for the----Hum? There is no kardiae insufficiency, I think, neither mitral nor tricuspid. If we find no tendency to hypertrophy we shall do very well. I have succeeded in diagnosing a slight diastolic murmur; very slight." He deposited the instrument, and said, not without a certain shade of satisfaction that his research had not been fruitless, "The heart is the peccant organ."
"Oh, sir! is it serious?" said poor Mrs. "By no means. Try this" (he scratched a prescription which would not have misbecome the tomb of Cheops), "and come again in a month." Ting! He struck a bell.英文原著 · 《Hard Cash》
Because I was talking to those people over there, and there's a chance-- a slight chance, but a chance--美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
A hog, a dog, whatever keenly scented, carefully trained animal gets the assignment, spends a lifetime traipsing through the dark, sniffing out the slightest aroma.美剧 · 《Billions》
Who most famously said, "Free your mind and your ass will follow." But only slightly less known and far more apt in the case at bar is, "You can't fake the funk." As much as I want to dance to your tune, if the groove isn't fat enough, I'm just gonna stand in place.美剧 · 《Billions》
The only slight jarring note was when Jeffrey Katzenberg said of the mustang, The only slight jarring note was when Jeffrey Katzenberg said of the mustang,演讲 · 《Militant atheism ~ Richard Dawkins》