MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: That cursed tailor makes me wait all day when I have so much to do! I'm enraged. May the quartan fever shake that tormentor of a tailor! To the devil with the tailor! May the plague choke the tailor! If I had him here now, that detestable tailor, that dog of a tailor, that traitor of a tailor, I .英文原著 · 《The Middle Class Gentleman》
Length -- 7 to 7.3 inches. About one-fourth smaller than the robin. Male -- Head, throat, upper back, tail, and part of wings black. Breast, rump, shoulders, under wing and tail coverts, and under parts bright reddish brown. Whitish-yellow markings on a few tail and wing feathers. Female -- Head and upper parts olive, shading into brown; brighter on head and near tail. Back and wings dusky brown, with pale-buff shoulder-bars and edges of coverts. Throat black.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
The funeral notice read as follows: "You are invited to be present at the funeral services of M. Jean-Frederic Taillefer, of the firm Taillefer & Company, formerly contractor for supplies, in his life-time Knight of the Legion of Honor and of the Golden Spur, Captain of the National Guard of Paris, died May 1st, at his mansion, rue Joubert. The services will be conducted at --, etc. In behalf of----," etc. [The Firm of Nucingen. Father Goriot. The Magic Skin. The Red Inn.]
TAILLEFER (Madame), first wife of the preceding, and mother of Frederic-Michel and Victorine Taillefer.英文原著 · 《Repertory of the Comedie Humaine-2》
In the kingdom of Kashgar, which is, as everybody knows, situated on the frontiers of Great Tartary, there lived long ago a tailor and his wife who loved each other very much. One day, when the tailor was hard at work, a little hunchback came and sat at the entrance of the shop, and began to sing and play his tambourine. The tailor was amused with the antics of the fellow, and thought he would take him home to divert his wife. The hunchback having agreed to his proposal, the tailor closed his shop and they set off together.英文原著 · 《The Arabian Nights》
Length -- 6 to 7 inches. About the size of the English sparrow. Male -- Black above, striped with white. Tail shaped like a wedge Outer tail feathers white, and barred with black. Middle tail feathers black. A black stripe on top of head, and distinct white band over and under the eyes. Red patch on upper side of neck. Wings, with six white bands crossing them transversely; white underneath.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
Length -- 11 to 12 inches. About two inches larger than the robin. Male and Female -- Upper p arts gray; darkest on wings and tail; back of the head and nape of the neck sooty, almost black. Forehead, throat, and neck white, and a few white tips on wings and tail. Underneath lighter gray. Tail long. Plumage fluffy. Range -- Northern parts of the United States and British Provinces of North America.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
In his tail." - "In his tongue" - "Whose tongue?" "Yours, if you talk of tails, And so farewell." "What, with my tongue in your tail?" I'm regretting my earlier cattiness.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
Hey, quality, why don't you just take them to office depot and get them tailored?美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
I'm not going back to that retirement home with my tail between my legs.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》