The sound of coopers' mallets rings through the skyey caves; for here, where Nature stints human industry of soil, the soil is everywhere tilled, and everywhere fertile.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. In freedom it gives itself unreservedly, abundantly, completely. All the laws on the statutes, all the courts in the universe, cannot tear it from the soil, once love has taken root. If, however, the soil is sterile, how can marriage make it bear fruit? It is like the last desperate struggle of fleeting life against death.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
"Touch him ne'er so lightly, into song he broke: Soil so quick-receptive, -- not one feather-seed, Not one flower dust fell but straight its fall awoke Vitalizing virtue: song would song succeed Sudden as spontaneous -- prove a poet-soul!" Indeed? Rock's the song-soil rather, surface hard and bare: Sun and dew their mildness, storm and frost their rage Vainly both expend, -- few flowers awaken there: Quiet in its cleft broods -- what the after age Knows and names a pine, a nation's heritage.英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
"Let no child sign the register, look at a book, receive or present an application, with soiled hands. Soiled and crumpled applications are considered defective and cannot be accepted.英文原著 · 《Library Work with Children》
Oh, I remember now. I know now the soil of the field is brown, like the garden; and the soil of the moor all black and peaty. But if you dig down two or three feet, you will find the soils of the moor and the field just the same. So perhaps the top soils were once both alike. I know. Well, and what do you think about it now? I want you to look and think. I want every one to look and think.英文原著 · 《Madam How and Lady Why》
Well done. But why do you think so? Because, of course, some one made the bank; and the brown soil only goes up to it. Well, that is something like common sense. Now you will not say any more, as the cows or the butterflies might, that the hay-field was always there. And how did men change the soil? By tilling it with the plough, to sweeten it, and manuring it, to make it rich. And then did all these beautiful grasses grow up of themselves?英文原著 · 《Madam How and Lady Why》
I had no idea that re-potting your orchids counted as "Working the soil." Okay, they're in soil, are-- You know what? I don't want to talk about this.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
you peel the soiled one off, then swab the affected area with q-tips.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Whatever it is construction workers consume, their night soil is not fit for breathing.美剧 · 《Billions》
There are several lessons that can be taken from this grisly tale of passion, but the one I draw is this: If you harbor split loyalties, and fail to take a side, your mind may become nothing more than the soil for mint sprigs.美剧 · 《Billions》