She felt Trimmle wavering expressively on the threshold as if in rebuke of such offhand acquiescence; then her retreating steps sounded down the passage, and Mary, pushing away her papers, crossed the hall, and went to the library door. It was still closed, and she wavered in her turn, disliking to disturb her husband, yet anxious that he should not exceed his normal measure of work. As she stood there, balancing her impulses, the esoteric Trimmle returned with the announcement of luncheon, and Mary, thus impelled, opened the door and went into the library.英文原著 · 《Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton-Part 2》
"Go and ask Agnes, then," Mary interjected. Trimmle still wore her look of patient magnanimity. "Agnes would not know, Madam, for she had unfortunately burnt her hand in trying the wick of the new lamp from town--" Trimmle, as Mary was aware, had always been opposed to the new lamp--"and so Mrs. Dockett sent the kitchen-maid instead."英文原著 · 《Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton-Part 2》
"We sat down and went on playing. The Trimble gang had a roughhouse for sure. They were getting good and drunk. They'd drink a while and holler a while, and then they'd shoot up a few bottles and glasses. Two or three times they came and tried to open our door. Then there was some more shooting outside, and I looked out the window again. Ham Gossett, the town marshal, had a posse in the houses and stores across the street, and was trying to bag a Trimble or two through the windows.英文原著 · 《Roads of Destiny》
The next morning I came suddenly on a strange gentleman in the gallery. He wore a flowered dressing-gown like the one I had seen on the master, and he had a jolly, round face. I stopped and stared. ``Who the devil are you?'' said he, but not unkindly. ``My name is David Trimble,'' said I, ``and I come from the mountains.''
He laughed. David Trimble-from-the-mountains, who the devil am I?''
``I don't know, sir,'' and I started to go away, not wishing to disturb him. ``Avast!'' he cried. ``Stand fast.英文原著 · 《The Crossing》
The dame, holding between her thumb and finger a little china cup of tea well laced, she called it, with Cognac, remarked,--"They fairly run the Intendant down, Froumois: there is not a girl in the city but laces her boots to distraction since it came out that the Intendant admires a neat, trim ankle. I had a trim ankle myself when I was the Charming Josephine, M. Froumois!"英文原著 · 《The Golden Dog》
--Then, Yorick, replied my uncle Toby, you and I will lead the way abreast,--and do you, corporal, follow a few paces behind us.--And Susannah, an' please your honour, said Trim, shall be put in the rear.-- 'Twas an excellent disposition,--and in this order, without either drums beating, or colours flying, they marched slowly from my uncle Toby's house to Shandy-hall. --I wish, said Trim, as they entered the door,--instead of the sash weights, I had cut off the church spout, as I once thought to have done.-- You have cut off spouts enow, replied Yorick.英文原著 · 《The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy》
Max and I still have to go to the cupcake shop and tape up the windows so we can start the trim tomorrow.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
We make up the difference by streamlining inefficiencies and trimming bloated executive compensation and perquisites, beginning with the corporate jet.美剧 · 《Billions》
No matter how carefully she trimmed, or how lovingly she watered... or how generously she fertilized, the grass was always greener on the other side of the fence.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
Is like a Yellowstone National Park with all of the trimmings. is like a Yellowstone National Park with all of the trimmings.演讲 · 《Hooked by an octopus ~ Mike deGruy》