It has a hundred ways of cheating us. When I bought this farm and put the mortgage on it, a day's work would bring twice the results it will now. That is to say, the total at the end of the year showed my profits to be twice what they would be now, even if the railway did not stand in the way to rob us of more than we earn. So that it will take just twice as many days' work now to pay off this mortgage as it would have done at the time it was contracted. It's a conspiracy, I tell you! Those Eastern capitalists make a science of ruining us."英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
Then the square is of twice two feet? And how many are twice two feet? count and tell me. Four, Socrates. And might there not be another square twice as large as this, and having like this the lines equal? And of how many feet will that be? Of eight feet. And now try and tell me the length of the line which forms the side of that double square: this is two feet-what will that be?英文原著 · 《Meno》
The mother had the knife outstretched. Rome took it, and the scratch of the point on the hard steel went twice through the stillness-one more fer the young un"; the voice was the old mother's-then twice again.英文原著 · 《A Cumberland Vendetta》
---"Mentira!---you could not be her mother ... Still, if you were---And she must not come in here,---jamais! Carmen, did you know Adele,---Adele Florane? So like her,---so like,---God only knows how like! Perhaps I think I know;---but I do not---do not know justly, fully---how like! si!---es el vomito!---yo lo conozco, Carmen! She must not die twice ... I died twice ...英文原著 · 《Chita-A Memory of Last Island》
"Your mamma sent you on business! I never heard of such a thing. Twice I have been to see Archibald, and twice did Dill answer that he was engaged and must not be interrupted. I shall make old Dill explain his meaning for observing a mystery over it to me."英文原著 · 《East Lynne》
She studied his countenance like an inscription, and deciphered each rapt expression that crossed it; and stored them in her memory. Twice she heft her ambuscade to go to bed, and twice Curiosity, or Something, drew her back. At last, having looked, peered, and peeped, till her feet were cold, and her face the reverse, she informed herself that the foolish Thing had tired her out. "Good-night, Mr. Policeman," said she, pretending to bawl to him. "And oh! Do rain! As hard as ever you can.英文原著 · 《Hard Cash》
But when I'm making decisions for you as well as me, that's when I'm twice as careful, twice as focused, because I cannot live with losing somebody else's money.美剧 · 《Billions》