When the others started homeward, I followed. I did not mind their calling me lazy, nor that my father gave me only one tarnished copper cent, while Lida received two or three bright ones. I had had what I wanted most. I would rather sit under the apple-trees and hear the birds sing than have a whole handful of bright copper pennies. It was well for my father and his garden that his other children were not like me.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
"No, you can't. It's awful pretty - I mean, they're awful pretty. Somepin you want, too." How could he guess with her fingering his tarnished cuff buttons and looking down at them every minute or two?英文原著 · 《Back Home》
The audience-chamber was hung with great mirrors in frames of tarnished gilt. In these Billy saw himself reproduced in a wavering line of Billies that, like the ghost of Banquo, stretched to the disappearing point. Of such images there was an army, but of the real Billy, as he was acutely conscious, there was but one. Among the black faces scowling from the doorways he felt the odds were against him. Without making a reply he passed out between the racks of rusty muskets in the anteroom, between the two Gatling guns guarding the entrance, and on the palace steps, in indecision, halted.英文原著 · 《Billy and the Big Stick》
His costume was usually in keeping with his own conception of these characters, in so far as his scanty opportunities permitted. An old, broken sword of his father's, which had been polished until it "flashed" properly, was girded to a brass- mounted belt about his waist; an ancient, gold-braided, military cap, which was much too large, covered his curly head; and four tarnished brass buttons, displaying the Golden Lion of Norway, gave a martial air to his blue jacket, although the rest were plain horn.英文原著 · 《Boyhood in Norway》
All her bright golden hair Tarnished with rust, She that was young and fair Fallen to dust.英文原著 · 《Charmides and Other》
If you think I would do anything, anything to tarnish our brother's memory...美剧 · 《Billions》
Are you really going to destroy me-- tarnish this historic institution that's helped thousands of young men and women and those poor refugees-- to keep your son from being expelled?美剧 · 《Billions》