Yes, by heavens, we'd have done it! Why, we wanted it! God forgive us, in our hearts both Fritz and I wanted it. But Rudolf would have the king out. He would have him out, though he lost a throne--and what he wanted more--by it. But he would have him out. So he thwarted the fate. But it's not to be thwarted.英文原著 · 《Rupert of Hentzau》
JUST where young Stetson stood, the mountains racing along each bank of the Cumberland had sent out against each other, by mutual impulse, two great spurs. At the river's brink they stopped sheer, with crests uplifted, as though some hand at the last moment had hurled them apart, and had led the water through the breach to keep them at peace. To-day the crags looked seamed by thwarted passion; and, sullen with firs, they made fit symbols of the human hate about the base of each.英文原著 · 《A Cumberland Vendetta》
But Guy Clarence was not to be thwarted in his benevolence. He thrust the sixpence into her hand.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
Prominent and influential editors, accustomed to deal with politicians, men of an infinitely lower grade, say, in their ignorance, that he acted "on the principle of revenge." They do not know the man. They must enlarge themselves to conceive of him. I have no doubt that the time will come when they will begin to see him as he was. They have got to conceive of a man of faith and of religious principle, and not a politician or an Indian; of a man who did not wait till he was personally interfered with or thwarted in some harmless business before he gave his life to the cause of the oppressed.英文原著 · 《A Plea for Captain John Brown》
Something of the mortification of the actress cheated of her part mingled with the pain which thrilled through every fibre of her heart and brain. Her nature had been thwarted, her vanity wounded, her woman's generosity cheated of self-sacrifice. Then, when she had raised all these questions, set vibrating all the springs in those different phases of being which we distinguish as social, moral, and physical, her energies were so far exhausted and relaxed that she was powerless to grasp a single thought amid the chase of conflicting ideas.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
She was quite sure of her father's permission, for she never had been thwarted in any of her whims. And it mattered little to her whether Yann were rich or not. To begin with, a sailor like him would need but a little money in advance to attend the classes of the coast navigation school, and might shortly become a captain whom all shipowners would gladly intrust with their vessels. It also mattered little to her that he was such a giant; great strength may become a defect in a woman, but in a man is not prejudicial to good looks.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
But that's sort of been thwarted, unfortunately, 'cause Courtney's purportedly falling short of shoring up four quadrant support.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
It doesn't change the fact that my constituents are saying, "Give me a bridge, not a war zone." All I'm saying is that we need to anticipate threats when we can and thwart them.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
And the ransomware attempt that you thwarted saved this place a fortune.美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》
The State's Attorney is grasping at straws trying to thwart our suit by insisting that this new sniper is a copycat.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》