I once received an advertisement of one "who had studied thirty years by candle-light for the good of his countrymen." He might have studied twice as long by daylight and never have been taken notice of. But elucubrations cannot be over-valued. There are some who have gained themselves great reputation for physic by their birth, as the "seventh son of a seventh son," and others by not being born at all, as the unborn doctor, who I hear is lately gone the way of his patients, having died worth five hundred pounds per annum, though he was not born to a halfpenny.英文原著 · 《Isaac Bickerstaff》
"Now may I be your leading lady?" she asked. "My leading lady, not only in my next picture, but for life," he replied. There was a pretty little scene in which the wager was paid. Merton studied it. Twice again, that evening, he studied it. He was doubtful. It would seem queer to take a girl around the waist that way and kiss her so slowly. Maybe he could learn.英文原著 · 《Merton of the Movies》
I can't reckon it up for the life of me.'
I studied and studied. On it went grinding and rattling like all the round pebbles in the world rolling on a beach with a tidy surf on. I tumbled at last. `Remember that thing with the two rockers we saw at the Hermit's Hut in the Hollow?' I said to Jim. `We couldn't make out what it was. I know now; it was a gold cradle, and there's hundreds and thousands rocking there at the Turon. That's what's the matter.'
`We're going to see some life, it strikes me,' says he. `We'll know it all directly.英文原著 · 《Robbery Under Arms》
His active, inquiring mind played upon hundreds of questions in a dozen different branches of science. He studied smoky chimneys; he invented bifocal spectacles; he studied the effect of oil upon ruffled water; he identified the "dry bellyache" as lead poisoning; he preached ventilation in the days when windows were closed tight at night, and upon the sick at all times; he investigated fertilizers in agriculture. Many of his suggestions have since borne fruit, and his observations show that he foresaw some of the great developments of the nineteenth century.英文原著 · 《The Age of Invention》
"I have been much with her," he replied, taking up her words with humorous gravity. "But I have never studied her as I have studied law. I have never cross-examined her for a witness, or prosecuted her as an attorney, or pronounced sentence on her is a judge. I am her advocate--and I am ready to defend her now--even to you!" "John!--""I love her--that is all there is of it!"英文原著 · 《The Choir Invisible》
All night Sydney Lord sat down-stairs in his book-walled sanctum and studied over the situation. It was a crucial one. The great psychological moment of Sydney Lord's life for knight-errantry had arrived. He studied the thing from every point of view. There was no romance about it. These were hard, sordid, tragic, ludicrous facts with which he had to deal. He knew to a nicety the agonies which Margaret suffered. He knew, because of his own capacity for sufferings of like stress.英文原著 · 《The Copy-Cat》
I studied law in Korea, but I never made it through graduation.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
You wouldn't even know that word if you hadn't studied at my knee.美剧 · 《Billions》
Because you've studied the Flash Crash of 2010, and you know that "Quant" is just another word for "Wild fucking guess--with math." "Quant" Is another word for "Systemized, ordered thinking represented in an algorithmic approach to trading." Just remember: Billy Beane never won a World Series.美剧 · 《Billions》
So she was like that jazz musician friend you have who never studied music So she was like that jazz musician friend you have who never studied music演讲 · 《A powerful idea about ideas ~ Alan Kay》