[521] -- I cannot identify this river. There is none such, to my knowledge, twelve miles or thereabouts from Kondavid. "Salt" may perhaps mean brackish. [522] -- Kondapalle. [523] -- Rajahmundry. The first syllable has been accidentally dropped, perhaps by the copyist. [524] -- Senhor Lopes's "Chronica" has "HU HOME SEU QUE AQUELLE TEMPO D AQUELLE TEMPO MUITO SABIA." Mr. Ferguson suggests, and with good reason, that for the second TEMPO we should read JOGO.英文原著 · 《A Forgotten Empire-Vijayanagar》
"The telephone, my dear Bellward,"--Mortimer spoke in a pompous voice--"the telephone is the symbol of the age in which we live, the age of publicity but also of indiscretion. It is almost as indiscreet to have a telephone in your house as to keep a diary. Therefore, in view of our little party here this evening, to prevent us from being disturbed in any way, I took the liberty of... of severing the connection... temporarily, mind you, only temporarily; it shall be restored as soon as we break up. I have some small acquaintance with electrical engineering."英文原著 · 《Okewood of the Secret Service》
Meanwhile these islands, stiff with cold and frost, and in a distant region of the world, remote from the visible sun, received the beams of light, that is, the holy precepts of Christ, the true Sun, showing to the whole world his splendour, not only from the temporal firmament, but from the height of heaven, which surpasses every thing temporal, at the latter part, as we know, of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, by whom his religion was propagated without impediment, and death threatened to those who interfered with its professors.英文原著 · 《On the Ruin of Britain》
'But you may temporize,' said Lilias, upon whom the idea of her uncle's displeasure made evidently a strong impression,--'you may temporize, as most of the gentry in this country do, and let the bubble burst of itself; for it is singular how few of them venture to oppose my uncle directly. I entreat you to avoid direct collision with him. To hear you, the head of the House of Redgauntlet, declare against the family of Stuart, would either break his heart, or drive him to some act of desperation.'英文原著 · 《Redgauntlet》
This was just supposed to be a temporary distraction till we got back to the cupcake thing.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Electric Sun's offer was just a ploy to temporarily prop up Lumetherm.美剧 · 《Billions》
I understand that we are in a temporary moment of separation and no longer in the mode of telling each other our day's events in detail.美剧 · 《Billions》
Tuk has relatives without green cards, only temporary work visas, who work for Eureka.美剧 · 《Billions》
And so we built a temporary building -- I'm getting good at temporary -- And so we built a temporary building -- I'm getting good at temporary --演讲 · 《My days as a young rebel ~ Frank Gehry》