The Wrens, the Woodpeckers, the Flycatchers, the Warblers, Purple Finch, the Cuckoos, Brown Thrasher, Wood Thrush, Cowbird, Brown Creepers, the Nuthatches and Titmice, the Kinglets, Chewink; the White-crowned, White-throated, Tree, Fox, and Song Sparrows; Humming-bird, Bluebird, Junco, the Crossbills, the Grosbeaks, Nighthawk, Whippoorwill, Mourning Dove, Indigo Bird, Brown Thrasher.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
BROWN THRASHER (Harporhynchus rufus) Thrasher and Mocking-bird family英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
The others declared that this would be capital fun, and enthusiastically promised their assistance. Each one selected his particular antipathy to thrash, though all showed a marked preference for Viggo, whom, however, for reason of politeness, they were obliged to leave to the chief. Only one boy sat silent, and made no offer to thrash anybody, and that was Marcus Henning.英文原著 · 《Boyhood in Norway》
The innkeeper got a rope's end. "Now I am going to thrash you," said the innkeeper. "You have no right to be angry with me," said the devil. "I am only the devil, and it is my nature to do wrong."
"Is that so?" asked the innkeeper. "Fact, I assure you," said the devil. "You really cannot help doing ill?" asked the innkeeper. "Not in the smallest," said the devil; "it would be useless cruelty to thrash a thing like me."
"It would indeed," said the innkeeper. And he made a noose and hanged the devil.英文原著 · 《Fables》
"Now I am going to thrash you," said the inn-keeper. "You have no right to be angry with me," said the devil. "I am only the devil, and it is my nature to do wrong."
"Is that so?" asked the innkeeper. "Fact, I assure you," said the devil. "You really cannot help doing ill?" asked the innkeeper. "Not in the smallest," said the devil, "it would be useless cruelty to thrash a thing like me."
"It would indeed," said the innkeeper. And he made a noose and hanged the devil. "There!" said the innkeeper.英文原著 · 《Robert Louis Stevenson》
When the Massachusetts farmers think they hear the first brown thrasher in April advising them to plant their Indian corn, reassuringly calling, "Drop it, drop it - cover it up, cover it up - pull it up, pull it up, pull it up" (Thoreau), they look to the dogwood flowers to confirm the thrasher's advice before taking it.英文原著 · 《WILD FLOWERS》
This is the kind of thing that leads to hearings, investigations, public thrashing,美剧 · 《Billions》