The light mounted higher and higher, until it filled the whole world.... He floated toward an immense perpendicular cliff of black rock, without top or bottom. Halfway up it Krag, suspended in midair, was dealing terrific blows at a blood - red spot with a huge hammer. The rhythmical, clanging sounds were hideous. Presently Maskull made out that these sounds were the familiar drum beats. "What are you doing, Krag?" he asked. Krag suspended his work, and turned around. "Beating on Your heart, Maskull," was his grinning response.英文原著 · 《A Voyage to Arcturus》
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate & pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; & when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.英文原著 · 《AUTOBIOGRAPHY》
For half an hour the fighting was most desperate. At the end of this time the enemy had become so dismayed by our resistance that they fell back, and hostilities were suspended. However, they soon returned to the attack, and again were repulsed with loss. Hostilities were once more suspended. They then, for the third time, called upon us to surrender, promising that our lives should be spared. Antony Mauprat replied with an obscene jest. They remained undecided, but did not withdraw.英文原著 · 《Mauprat》
"I reckon I'll trust ye," he said, at last, more through confidence in his own strength than faith in his enemy; foi Jasper whipped would be as much at his mercy as he was now. So Rome threw off his coat, and began winding his homespun suspenders about his waist. Watching him closely, Jasper did the same.英文原著 · 《A Cumberland Vendetta》
I have spoken of the old Hotel d'Assezat as the best house at Toulouse; with the exception of the cloister of the museum, it is the only "bit" I remember. It has fallen from the state of a noble residence of the sixteenth century to that of a warehouse and a set of offices; but a certain dignity lingers in its melancholy court, which is divided from the street by a gateway that is still imposing, and in which a clambering vine and a red Virginia- creeper were suspended to the rusty walls of brick stone.英文原著 · 《A Little Tour In France》
"The suspenders--they are new, Signore!" He drew attention to the scarlet elastics that kept the orange-and-black socks in place. "My boots!" He put his feet up on the box that Artois might see his lemon- colored boots, then unbuttoned and threw open his waistcoat. "My shirt is new! My cravat is new! Look at the pin!" He flourished his plump, brown, and carefully washed hands. "I have a new ring." He bent his head. "My hat is new."
Artois broke into a roar of laughter that seemed to do him good after his days of work. "You young dandy!英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
So there it is, 50 years later, sitting there -- sort of suspended animation. So there it is, 50 years later, sitting there -- sort of suspended animation.演讲 · 《The birth of the computer ~ George Dyson》