"Just the thing for my stationary tank for the goldfish," exclaimed Carl. "I've
wanted it for a long time; it isn't good to keep them in globes, but how in the
world did she find out? I've never told any one."英文原著 · 《Beautiful Joe》
Beyond the sea-marshes a curious archipelago lies. If you travel by steamer to the sea-islands to-day, you are tolerably certain to enter the Gulf by Grande Pass--skirting Grande Terre, the most familiar island of all, not so much because of its proximity as because of its great crumbling fort and its graceful pharos: the stationary White-Light of Barataria. Otherwise the place is bleakly uninteresting: a wilderness of wind-swept grasses and sinewy weeds waving away from a thin beach ever speckled with drift and decaying things,--worm-riddled timbers, dead porpoises.英文原著 · 《Chita-A Memory of Last Island》
Seniavine. Serangani. Seychelles. SHIP-BOTTOM quickly coated with coral. SMYTH island. SOCIETY archipelago, stationary condition of. Alleged proofs of recent elevation. Society archipelago.英文原著 · 《Coral Reefs》
Perhaps you think I haven't enjoyed this interruption to the monotony of institution life! You can say all you please, my dear Mrs. Pendleton, about how well I am managing your asylum, but, just the same, it isn't natural for me to be so stationary. I very frequently need a change. That is why Gordon, with his bubbling optimism and boyish spirits, is so exhilarating especially as a contrast to too much doctor.英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
It is curious for a Frenchman, accustomed to a very different state of things, to hear the perpetual complaints which are made in the United States against the stationary propensities of legal men, and their prejudices in favor of existing institutions.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
[Footnote i: This seems, indeed, to be the opinion of almost all American statesmen. "Judging of the future by the past," says Mr. Cass, "we cannot err in anticipating a progressive diminution of their numbers, and their eventual extinction, unless our border should become stationary, and they be removed beyond it, or unless some radical change should take place in the principles of our intercourse with them, which it is easier to hope for than to expect."]英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
ming. every retreat was always meticulously planned, right down to the personalized stationary, hence his record of successful getaways, from women who did not want to see him go. so when he decided to break up with edie britt, Karl prayed to god yet again to help him avoid, all the unnecessary dram美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》