Little spots of sunshine lie on the surface of the water and dance, dance, and their reflections wobble deliciously over the ceiling; a stir of my finger sets them whirring, reeling. I move a foot, and the planes of light in the water jar. I lie back and laugh, and let the green-white water, the sun-flawed beryl water, flow over me. The day is almost too bright to bear, the green water covers me from the too bright day. I will lie here awhile and play with the water and the sun spots.英文原著 · 《Men, Women and Ghosts》
All around me as I write is a noise of Nature drinking: and Nature makes a noise when she is drinking, being by no means refined. If I count it Christian mercy to give a cup of cold water to a sufferer, shall I complain of these multitudinous cups of cold water handed round to all living things; a cup of water for every shrub; a cup of water for every weed? I would be ashamed to grumble at it. As Sir Philip Sidney said, their need is greater than mine--especially for water.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
these are water and fire . may be called male, while the passive elements . earth and air . represent the female principle.... Only two elements, water and earth, are visible, and earth is called the hiding-place of fire, water the abode of air. In these two elements we have the broad law of limitation which divides the male from the female. The first matter of minerals is a kind of viscous water, mingled with pure and impure earth. Of this viscous water and fusible earth, or sulphur, is composed that which is called quicksilver, the first matter of the metals.英文原著 · 《Bygone Beliefs》
As the cold water of the jar immediately surrounding the bottle which contains the hot water, will be heated by the bottle while the other parts of the water in the jar will remain cold, this water so heated, becoming specifically lighter than that which surrounds it, will be forced upwards; and if it finds its way into the tube will rise up through it with the coloured hot water.--The warmed air of a room heated by an open Chimney Fire-place has always a tendency to rise, (if I may use that inaccurate expression,) and finding its way into the Chimney frequently goes off with the Smoke.英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
Disappointment was keen. This is what maddens the prospector or sheep-herder lost in the desert. Was it not a terrible thing to be dying of thirst, to see sparkling water, almost to smell it and then realize suddenly that all was only a lying track of the desert, a lure, a delusion? I ceased to wonder at the Mormons, and their search for water, their talk of water. But I had not realized its true significance. I had not known what water was. I had never appreciated it. So it was my destiny to learn that water is the greatest thing on earth.英文原著 · 《The Last of the Plainsmen》
SWEET-SCENTED WHITE WATER LILY; POND LILY; WATER NYMPH; WATER CABBAGE [FRAGRANT WATER-LILY] (Castalia odorata; Nymphaea odorata of Gray) Water-lily family英文原著 · 《WILD FLOWERS》
Angie Dickinson is about to sic the dogs on us, And I go under the water and Marlon goes under the water, And the water raises about two feet And sloshes all over her patio, And the dogs freak out and run like hell, And then we run like hell...美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》