`Plug, art thou rank? then milder twist must be; Plug, thou art milder: rank is twist to me. O twist, if plug be milder, let me buy.英文原著 · 《R. F. Murray》
The stem probably gains rigidity by being twisted (on the same principle that a much twisted rope is stiffer than a slackly twisted one), and is thus indirectly benefited so as to be enabled to pass over inequalities in its spiral ascent, and to carry its own weight when allowed to revolve freely.英文原著 · 《The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants》
He slipped his arm round her and raised her up, as if she had been a child, and for a long time sat listening with a queer twisted smile to the moanings of her lost illusions. The dawn found them still sitting there against the bole of the beech-tree. Her lips were parted; the tears had dried on her sleeping face, pillowed against his shoulder, while he still watched her sideways with the ghost of that twisted smile. And beyond the grey water, like some tired wanton, the moon in an orange hood was stealing down to her rest between the trees.英文原著 · 《Fraternity》
"That's right," said Hans; "go on howling, and when you're in bed to-night I'll wait till you're asleep, and then I'll creep over and take a little tiny piece of your arm and twist and twist it until--" He leant over the table making the most horrible faces at Lena, not noticing that Anton was standing behind his chair until the little boy bent over and spat on his brother's shaven head.英文原著 · 《In a German Pension》
I see now. I see now. Then look at the sketch of the rocks between this and home. It is only a rough sketch, of course: but it will make you understand something more about the matter. You see, the lump marked A. With twisted lines in it. That stands for the Mendip Hills to the west, which are made of old red sandstone, very much the same rock (to speak roughly) as the Kerry mountains. And why are the lines in it twisted?英文原著 · 《Madam How and Lady Why》
Minna sings: "Trip about, slip about, whip about Hoop. Wheel like a top at its quickest spin, Then, dear hoop, we shall surely win. First to the greenhouse and then to the wall Circle and circle, And let the wind push you, Poke you, Brush you, And not let you fall. Whirring you round like a wreath of mist. Hoopety hoop, Twist, Twist."英文原著 · 《Men, Women and Ghosts》
* [ON RADIO] See the stone set in your eyes See the thorn twist in your side I'll wait for you Sleight of hand and twist of fate On a bed of nails she makes me wait And I'll wait without you WOMAN * [ON RADIO]: Uh, we've just gotten a call from Rachel...美剧 · 《Friends》
I twist, and I stroke, and I twist, and I stroke.美剧 · 《Shameless》
We did a little twist on the traditional sugar and spice putting spice first because…美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
It's a very exciting twist ending, like an O. Henry novel, so I won't ruin it. It's a very exciting twist ending, like an O. Henry novel, so I won't ruin it.演讲 · 《My year of living biblically ~ A.J. Jacobs》