He began relating to me the story of one of his adventures, but suddenly stopped and, with fear in his eyes, squinted into a dark corner. "Is it a rat?" he asked. "I did not see anything," I replied. He again became silent and reflected with knitted brow. Often we were silent through long hours and consequently I was not astonished. Ivan leaned over near to me and began to whisper. "I want to tell you an old story. I had a friend in Transbaikalia.英文原著 · 《Beasts, Men and Gods》
"Search me!" said Smith. "I don't know what she weighs in at. But she's got a tidy gait. The ~Rambler~--that's her name--don't take the dust of anything afloat. This is my first trip on her. I'm taking a squint along this coast just to get an idea of the countries where the rubber and red pepper and revolutions come from. I had no idea there was so much scenery down here. Why, Central Park ain't in it with this neck of the woods.英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
"Four-thousand-dollar stock of goods!" gasped Keogh, in ecstasy. "Talk about coals to Newcastle! Why didn't he take a ship-load of palm-leaf fans to Spitzenbergen while he was about it? Saw the old codger on the beach. You ought to have been there when he put on his specs and squinted at the five hundred or so barefooted citizens standing around."英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
"Well, what's its name?" Bud's voice harshened with his growing interest and bewilderment. The baby was again covering one twinkling eye with its spread, pink palm, and was saying "Pik-k?" and laughing with the funniest little squint to its nose that Bud had ever seen. It was so absolutely demoralizing that to relieve himself Bud gave the squaw a shake. This tickled the baby so much that the chuckle burst into a rollicking laugh, with a catch of the breath after each crescendo tone that made it absolutely individual and like none other--save one.英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
Lovin Child went immediately about the business that seemed most important. He got down on his hands and knees and gravely inspected the broad black line, hopefully testing it with tongue and with fingers to see if it would yield him anything in the way of flavor or stickiness. It did not. It had been there long enough to be thoroughly dry and tasteless. He got up, planted both feet on it and teetered back and forth, chuckling up at Bud with his eyes squinted.英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
But sometimes, if you squint at it just right, everything lines up, and it's the most perfect... beautiful, amazing thing.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
If I squint, I can pretend he's Alan Alda.美剧 · 《Friends》
Oh, no, I was just squinting. That doesn't mean anything.美剧 · 《Friends》
Maybe it's the sun or the dust, but people kind of squint when they say hello.美剧 · 《House of Cards》