Heartsick with disgust, Clayton hurried into the lane that wound through the valley. Were these hovels, he asked himself in wonder, the cabins he once thought so poetic, so picturesque? How was it that they suggested now only a pitiable poverty of life? From each, as he passed, came a rough, cordial shout of greeting. Why was he jarred so strangely? Even nature had changed. The mountains seemed stunted, less beautiful. The light, streaming through the western gap with all the splendor of a mountain sunset, no longer thrilled him.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Europa》
The joyous brightness of June smiled around her. On the rocky heights there still grew the stunted reeds with their yellow blossoms; but passing into the hollow nooks sheltered against the bitter sea winds, one met with high sweet-smelling grass. But the poor old woman did not see all this, over whose head so many rapid seasons had passed, which now seemed as short as days.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
From the cliff-paths where they wandered, they could see the whole of this sea-bound country; which seems almost treeless, strewn with low, stunted bush and boulders. Here and there fishers' huts were scattered over the rocks, their high battered thatches made green by the cropping up of new mosses; and in the extreme distance, the sea, like a boundless transparency, stretched out in a never-ending horizon, which seemed to encircle everything.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
Near at hand the reefs were numerous, but out beyond nothing broke its polished mirror, from which arose a soft, caressing ripple, light and intensified from the depths of its many bays. Its horizon seemed so calm, and its depths so soft! The great blue sepulchre of many Gaoses hid its inscrutable mystery, while the breezes, faint as human breath, wafted to and fro the perfume of the stunted gorse, which had bloomed again in the lastest autumn sun.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
They also, as Joan told herself, were reformers. Near to them was a picturesque gentleman with a beard down to his waist whose "stunt"- -as Flossie would have termed it--was hygienic clothing; it seemed to contain an undue proportion of fresh air. There were ladies in coats and stand-up collars, and gentlemen with ringlets. More than one of the guests would have been better, though perhaps not happier, for a bath. "I fancy that's the idea," said Joan. "What will you do if you fail? Go back to China?"
"Yes," he answered. "And take her with me.英文原著 · 《All Roads Lead to Calvary》
It is like that other paternal arrangement--capitalism. It robs man of his birthright, stunts his growth, poisons his body, keeps him in ignorance, in poverty, and dependence, and then institutes charities that thrive on the last vestige of man's self-respect.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
Or is it "Caramel drizzle?" Just so you know, that stunt will go on my professional work record.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
To remind us that we're all in this together, and what a fucking pisser it is to work here... where a stunt like this is, you know, just a Tuesday.美剧 · 《Billions》
The first time BoJack dates a woman his own age, she's basically just a stunted 20-year-old.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
Well, BoJack's stunted, too. He got famous in his twenties, so he'll be in his twenties forever.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》