One young soldier, who was trying to eat a plate of soup near us, I felt quite sorry for. Every time he got the spoon near his mouth an officer invariably hove in view, and down would have to go the spoon, soup and all, and up he would have to rise. It never seemed to occur to the silly fellow to get under the table and finish his dinner there.英文原著 · 《Diary of a Pilgrimage》
"I shall give up!" said Polly, tumbling over in a chair, with the cake spoon in her hand, from which a small sticky lump fell on her apron, which Joel immediately pounced upon and devoured. "What do you want to bake, Phronsie?" she gasped, holding the spoon sticking up straight, and staring at the child.英文原著 · 《Five Little Peppers And How They Grew》
[175] Here, as usually, the doctrine of metempsychosis comes in to complete the proof. Darwin saw two Malay women in Keeling Island, who had a wooden spoon dressed in clothes like a doll; this spoon had been carried to the grave of a dead man, and becoming inspired at full moon, in fact lunatic, it danced about convulsively like a table or a hat at a modern spirit-seance." Tylor, op.英文原著 · 《Myths and Myth-Makers》
He made no reply. "Give me a spoon," said Henry. Simmons sat by the bedside rocking herself; she was stupefied with grief; but her sister, a handy girl, had come to her in her trouble: she brought Henry a spoon directly. He poured out a little wine, and put it to the sufferer's lips. He drank it, and said it was rare good stuff. Henry gave him a little more. Simmons then looked at him more intelligently and attentively, and gave a sort of shiver. "Who be you?"
"Henry Little; who advised you not to run that stone."
"Ah!" said Simmons, "I thought it was you." He seemed puzzled.英文原著 · 《Put Yourself in His Place》
"Et tu, Brute?" Stockton smilingly replied. "Well, I'll tell you. I asked the butler to bring me another spoon, and then, with a spoon in each hand, I attacked both the lady and the tiger at the same time."英文原著 · 《The Americanization of Edward Bok》
At noon to the Coffee-house, were with Dr. Allen some good discourse about physick and chymistry. And among other things, I telling him what Dribble the German Doctor do offer of an instrument to sink ships; he tells me that which is more strange, that something made of gold, which they call in chymistry AURUM FULMINANS, a grain, I think he said, of it put into a silver spoon and fired, will give a blow like a musquett, and strike a hole through the silver spoon downward, without the least force upward; and this he can make a cheaper experiment of, he says, with iron prepared.英文原著 · 《The Diary of Samuel Pepys》
I worked it out so that there are Two different words for spoon: "Planko" and "Janko." "Planko" is a spoon with food, "Janko" is a spoon without food.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》