The Sum coin'd in Queen Elizabeth's Time, who reform'd most of the old Specie, shews we then had not much Money amongst us; whereas the Sums coin'd in the Reigns of King Charles IId, and King James IId, being 6 Millions and an Half of Gold, and 2,200,000 in Silver, shew we had a vast Balance in our Favour, near 9 Millions being coin'd during these two Reigns. And this suggests that my Argument is just, that asserts the vast Increase of People during these Reigns, was owing to such a vast Balance of Trade in our Favour.英文原著 · 《Money Answers All Things》
There was another man I should like to have met--Sir Henry Wotton; for he was an ideal angler. Christopher North, too (``an excellent angler and now with God''!) --how I should love to have explored the Yarrow with him, for he was a man of vast soul, vast learning, and vast wit.英文原著 · 《The Love Affairs Of A Bibliomaniac》
Ages ago,--who shall say how long?--some vast commotion shook the foundations of the island, and bubbling up from sources far away amid the inland hills, a fiery deluge must have rushed down between their ridges, until, escaping from the narrower gorges, it found space to spread itself into one broad sheet of molten stone over an entire district of country, reducing its varied surface to one vast blackened level.英文原著 · 《Letters From High Latitudes》
This vast proletariat is slowly cohering. Tribal feuds are being forgotten. The anti-colour laws of South Africa, and particularly of the north -- which makes no difference between the savage Zulu fresh from his kraal and the stately Malay, between the Mashaangan and a man like Dr. Abdurahman himself -- are welding together this vast human mass, in the flux of a single grievance, and that grievance, the disability put upon colour qua colour by the law.英文原著 · 《Native Life in South Africa》
So Vastolla, to make him open his mouth, filled it with fruit; and so she fished the words out of him. And lo! as soon as Peruonto had said what she desired, the cask was turned into a beautiful ship; with sails and sailors and everything that could be wished for; and guns and trumpets and a splendid cabin in which Vastolla sat filled with delight.英文原著 · 《Stories from Pentamerone》
Then Vastolla quickly opened his lips, and scarcely had he spoken the words when he was changed, as it were from an owl to a nightingale, from an ogre to a beautiful youth, from a scarecrow to a fine gentleman. Vastolla, seeing such a transformation clasped him in her arms and was almost beside herself with joy. Then they were married and lived happily for years.英文原著 · 《Stories from Pentamerone》
How, with your vast knowledge of NYC nightlife, did you settle on this place?美剧 · 《Billions》
And working for Axe-- the speed at which his mind operates, the vastness of what it can hold, the way he recognizes and rewards talent-- it can bring out the best in you.美剧 · 《Billions》
As Gabrielle considered the vast emptiness of her new surroundings, she was surprised to find there was only one thing she truly missed...美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
Well, I just--it never would have occurred to me, you know, because of the vast age difference.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》