First is - let me see the program. First is what Mat. King calls "the juveline contest." It says here: "Run with truck carrying three ladders one hundred yards. Take fifteen-foot ladder from truck, raise it against structure" - that's the judges' stand - "and boy ascend. Time to be taken when climber grasps top rung of ladder." They're off. That pistol-shot started them. Why can't people sit down? See just as well if they did.英文原著 · 《Back Home》
Why, sure! Sure he had stock in the water works. Muzzey? I guess, yes . Pity they ever traded off the hand-engine. They got a light-running hook-and-ladder truck. Won two prizes at the tournament, just with that truck. But if they had that hand-engine now though!英文原著 · 《Back Home》
"Him and my boy got a-skylarkin' here. So I sent Bud over to the truck with him."
"That's queer!" mused the Mistress. "Why, Laddie never condescends to play,--or 'skylark,' as you call it,--with anyone except my husband or myself! He--"
"Never mind!" put in the Master. "We'll catch up with the truck before it's gone a mile. And we can take Laddie aboard here, then. But I wonder he consented to go ahead, without us. That isn't like Lad.英文原著 · 《Further Adventures of Lad》
Acting on a sudden idea, she called up the Place's superintendent, at the gatelodge. "You were down here when the truck came to the house this afternoon, weren't you?" she asked. "Yes, ma'am," said the man. "I was waiting for it. Mike and I helped Simmons to unload."
"Did you see which way Lad went, when he jumped out of the truck?" pursued the Mistress. "Or have any of you seen him since then?"
"Why, no, ma'am," came the puzzled answer. "I haven't seen him at all. I supposed he was in the car with you, and that maybe he'd been in the house ever since.英文原著 · 《Further Adventures of Lad》
After supper was cleared away, my father and the elderly gentleman, whose name was Captain Truck, played at checkers; and I amused myself for a while by watching the trouble they had in keeping the men in the proper places. just at the most exciting point of the game, the ship would careen, and down would go the white checkers pell-mell among the black. Then my father laughed, but Captain Truck would grow very angry, and vow that he would have won the game in a move or two more, if the confounded old chicken-coop-that's what he called the ship-hadn't lurched.英文原著 · 《The Story of a Bad Boy》
Here they come now. Those are the Caledonian. Tell by the truck . Do you think so? I don't think they're anything so very much. You'll never do it. Look at the way they run with their heads up. That shows they're all winded.英文原著 · 《Back Home》
They're not going to get in trucks and buses and go down there. they're not going to get in trucks and buses and go down there.演讲 · 《Building uniqueness ~ Moshe Safdie》