Not a man, for being simply man, Hath any honor; but honor for those honors That are without him, as place, riches, favor, Prizes of accident as oftas merit; Which when they fall, as being slippery standers, The love that leaned on them, as slippery too, Do one pluck down another, and together Die in the fall. But 'tis not so with me.英文原著 · 《Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare》
There's been but one pair of shoes sold all day. Blanchard went in and bought a pair of furlined house-slippers because he thought he saw Miss Hemstetter go into the store. I saw him throw the slippers into the lagoon afterwards."英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
That slipper, he decided (from the nature of things) could belong to none other than his Helene, and even as he came to this conclusion the slight pressure against his foot was gently but distinctly increased thrice. He pressed the slipper in return with his shoe, at the same time giving Madame de Vaurigard a look of grateful surprise and tenderness, which threw her into a confusion so evidently genuine that for an unworthy moment he had a jealous suspicion she had meant the little caress for some other.英文原著 · 《His Own People》
The row of white, sparkling shop fronts is gashed and bleeding, it bleeds red slippers. They spout under the electric light, fluid and fluctuating, a hot rain -- and freeze again to red slippers, myriadly multiplied in the mirror side of the window.英文原著 · 《Men, Women and Ghosts》
As he gazed upon it a change came over his face. Was Naomi dead? He had thought of death before--for himself, for others, never for Naomi. At a stride the awful thing was on him. Death! Oh, oh! With a helpless, broken, blind look he was standing in the middle of the floor with the slipper in his hand, when a footstep came to the door. He flung the slipper away and threw open his arms.英文原著 · 《The Scapegoat》
And Maclaine, with all the ostensible weaknesses of his kind, would claim regard for the strength that he knew not. He occupied a costly apartment in St. James's Street; his morning dress was a crimson damask banjam, a silk shag waistcoat, trimmed with lace, black velvet breeches, white silk stockings, and yellow morocco slippers; but since his magnificence added no jot to his courage, it was rather mean than admirable. Indeed, his whole career was marred by the provincialism of his native manse.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
This dynamic will lead to a kind of a feedback cycle that puts us on a slippery slope. this dynamic will lead to a kind of a feedback cycle that puts us on a slippery slope.演讲 · 《Progress is not a zero-sum game ~ Robert Wright》