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》
"To trot," says he, "raise the hands" ("yearlings" use both hands) "slightly. This is to apprise the horse that you want his attention. Then lower the hands slightly, and at the same time gently press the horse with the legs until he takes the gait desired. As soon as he does, relax the pressure." A long pause. The occupants of the galleries are looking anxiously on. They know what is coming next. They have seen these drills over and over again. And so each trooper awaits anxiously the next command.英文原著 · 《Henry Ossian Flipper》
The doors were closed, but the bar was still noisy, and the laggards slipped out cautiously by the side door, where a barman kept watch for the police. Presently the bricklayer came out, alone. He stood on the footpath, slightly fuddled, his giddiness increased by the fresh air. Immediately Chook lurched forward to meet him, with a drunken leer. "'Ello, Bill, fancy meetin' yous!" he mumbled. The man, swaying slightly, stared at him in a fog. "I dunno you," he muttered. "Wot, yer dunno me, as worked wid yer on that job in Kent Street?英文原著 · 《Jonah》
'Precisely, but the rubbish is capable of being made a very valuable article, if it were only handled properly. I have talked to the people about it again and again, but I can't get them to believe what I say. Now just listen to my notion. In the first place, I should slightly alter the name; only slightly, but that little alteration would in itself have an enormous effect. Instead of Chat I should call it Chit-Chat!'英文原著 · 《New Grub Street》
A vulgar man often scratches his head when perplexed in mind; and I believe that he acts thus from habit, as if he experienced a slightly uncomfortable bodily sensation, namely, the itching of his head, to which he is particularly liable, and which he thus relieves. Another man rubs his eyes when perplexed, or gives a little cough when embarrassed, acting in either case as if he felt a slightly uncomfortable sensation in his eyes or windpipe.[6]英文原著 · 《The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals》
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》
As I know you do, Axe, in your slightly smaller section of the world.美剧 · 《Billions》
And eventually, this moment, this moment where one electron is slightly out of whack, will end, the world will right itself again.美剧 · 《Billions》
Every second you waste finding another ride, your daughter gets another second closer to getting her eyes poked out by a mutant chicken, or worse, death, or slightly better, teen pregnancy, or worse again, salmonella.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》