"You wouldn't know how good he was," Phyllis went on musingly, "unless you'd sat next him in a tunnel. The other day he had his waist squeezed and he simply sat still and did nothing. And then when the tunnel ended, it was Jock after all, not me. His face was-- Oh! ha!" She threw back her head, displaying all her white, round throat. Then edging near, she whispered:英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
Well, I am willing, now, that "Neary's tunnel," or anybody else's tunnel shall succeed. Some of them may beat us a few months, but we shall be on hand in the fullness of time, as sure as fate. I would hate to swap chances with any member of the "tribe"--in fact, I am so lost to all sense and reason as to be capable of refusing to trade "Flyaway" (with but 200 feet in the Company of four,) foot for foot for that splendid "Lady Washington," with its lists of capitalist proprietors, and its 35,000 feet of Priceless ground.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 1》
That would be too steep a climb, for even such a great engine as this. Then there is a crack which we can get through? Look and see. Why, we are coming to a regular wall of hill, and -
And going right through it in the dark. We are in the Box Tunnel. * * *
There is the light again: and now I suppose you will find your tongue. How long it seemed before we came out! Yes, because you were waiting and watching, with nothing to look at: but the tunnel is only a mile and a quarter long after all, I believe.英文原著 · 《Madam How and Lady Why》
To General Howard and his command, to General Jeff. Davis and his, I am more than usually indebted for the intelligence of commanders and fidelity of commands. The brigade of Colonel Bushbeck, belonging to the Eleventh Corps, which was the first to come out of Chattanooga to my flank, fought at the Tunnel Hill, in connection with General Ewing's division, and displayed a courage almost amounting to rashness. Following the enemy almost to the tunnel-gorge, it lost many valuable lives, prominent among them Lieutenant-Colonel Taft, spoken of as a most gallant soldier.英文原著 · 《Memoirs of General William T. Sherman-1》
White bells, Blue bells, Hollow and reflexed. Deep tunnels of blue and white dimness, Cool wine-tunnels for bees. There is a floundering and buzzing over Minna's head.英文原著 · 《Men, Women and Ghosts》
Morgan then destroyed a railroad bridge south of Gallatin, and the tunnel six miles north, the roof of which was supported with large beams on upright timbers. Running some freight cars into the tunnel, they were set on fire and some eight hundred feet of it destroyed, the roof caving in.英文原著 · 《The Army of the Cumberland》
It'll hold up to wind tunnel tests, I just need to rent the tunnel to be sure.美剧 · 《Billions》
"Carpal tunnel syndrome" is not "Carpool tunnel syndrome." And what else?美剧 · 《Modern Family》
Oh, thank God you're here, there is a bridge and tunnel smell over by the babies that's stressing me out.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》