They don't give you time to open or shut your umbrella in an English April, especially if it is an "automaton" one--the umbrella, I mean, not the April.英文原著 · 《Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow》
``Yes--the rain is bound to come,'' said Victor. ``And we say, `Here's an umbrella and there's the way to shelter.' And they laugh at OUR umbrella and, with the first drops plashing on their foolish faces, deny that it's going to rain.''英文原著 · 《The Conflict》
"Umbrellas," he replied, laconically, and the other man nodded. Men with sheaves of umbrellas, mended or in need of mending, had always been familiar features for him. Then David assumed the initiative; possessed of an honorable business as well as home, he grew bold. "Any objection to my staying here?" he asked. The other man eyed him sharply. "Smoke much?" he inquired. "Smoke a pipe sometimes." "Careful with your matches?" David nodded. "That's all I think about," said the farmer.英文原著 · 《The Copy-Cat》
And a prince he was. Before his carriage rode one company of men and another behind it; servants dressed in scarlet and gold bore him along, the coveted umbrella was held over his head, everything heart could desire was his. But yet it was not enough. He looked round still for something to wish for, and when he saw that in spite of the water he poured on his grass the rays of the sun scorched it, and that in spite of the umbrella held over his head each day his face grew browner and browner, he cried in his anger: 'The sun is mightier than I; oh, if I were only the sun!'英文原著 · 《The Crimson Fairy Book》
In a cigar store he saw a well-dressed man lighting a cigar at a swinging light. His silk umbrella he had set by the door on entering. Soapy stepped inside, secured the umbrella and sauntered off with it slowly. The man at the cigar light followed hastily.英文原著 · 《The Four Million》
"Of course," said the umbrella man--"that is--well, you know how these mistakes occur--I--if it's your umbrella I hope you'll excuse me--I picked it up this morning in a restaurant--If you recognise it as yours, why--I hope you'll--"英文原著 · 《The Four Million》
He's either looking to get back in your graces or trying to get close enough to jab a ricin-tipped umbrella into your thigh.美剧 · 《Billions》
Oh, Mrs. Mulberry Parker has an imaginary friend Um, British nanny I think he really locked into the whole "Mary Poppins" Thing Is that why he's sleeping with an umbrella?美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
I couldn't find Mrs. Mulberry's umbrella, so I brought her sun hat instead, all right?美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》