"Will they never stop? Oh, those sparks, those sparks! I can't disconnect it. Sparks, more sparks--will they never--" So he rambled on. It was fearsome to hear him.英文原著 · 《The Silent Bullet》
Who laid the first sticks on the handirons, and put the match to it? Who wuz it that did it, and how did he look, and when wuz he born, and why, and where? These, and many other thoughts of similar size and shape, filled my brane almost full enough to lift up the bunnet, that reposed gracefully on my foretop, as I stood and held the sparklin' glass in my hands. Sparkle! sparkle! sparkle! what wuz it, it wuz a tryin' to say to me and couldn't? Good land!英文原著 · 《Samantha at Saratoga》
I saw at once he was a Basque. Now you'll hear what a queer language he speaks. Doesn't he look silly? He's like a cat that's been caught in the larder!'
" 'And you,' said I to her in my own language, 'you look like an impudent jade--and I've a good mind to scar your face here and now, before your spark.'
" 'My spark!' said she. 'Why, you've guessed that all alone! Are you jealous of this idiot? You're even sillier than you were before our evening in the /Calle del Candilejo/! Don't you see, fool, that at this moment I'm doing gipsy business, and doing it in the most brilliant manner?英文原著 · 《Carmen》
In 1826-7, Harrison Gray Dyar, of New York, devised a telegraph in which the spark was made to stain the signals on moist litmus paper by decomposing nitric acid; but he had to abandon his experiments in Long Island and fly the country, because of a writ which charged him with a conspiracy for carrying on secret communication. In 1830 Hubert Recy published an account of a system of Teletatodydaxie, by which the electric spark was to ignite alcohol and indicate the signals of a code.英文原著 · 《Heroes of the Telegraph》
"Anybody," I said, "likes a boy who plays a hand--and a fist--to that tune." I continued to say a number of commendatory words about young John, while her sparkling eyes rested upon me. But even as I talked I grew aware that these eyes were not sparkling, were starry rather, and distant, and that she was not hearing what I said; so I stopped abruptly, and at the stopping she spoke, like a person waking up.英文原著 · 《Lady Baltimore》
"If the spray-bead gem be won, The stain of thy wing is washed away, But another errand must be done Ere thy crime be lost for aye; Thy flame-wood lamp is quenched and dark, Thou must re-illume its spark. Mount thy steed and spur him high To the heaven's blue canopy; And when thou seest a shooting star, Follow it fast, and follow it far - The last faint spark of its burning train Shall light the elfin lamp again. Thou hast heard our sentence, Fay; Hence! to the water-side, away!"英文原著 · 《The Culprit Fay and Other Poems》
The one final bit of sparkle we'll put in at the very end here The one final bit of sparkle we'll put in at the very end here演讲 · 《Nature vs. humans ~ Paul MacCready》