"How else could a woman hear such news? How else do you suppose she could feel to be told that she had been hoodwinked, and kept from her duty and a man's heart very likely broken, to save the respectability of a worn-out old family. Oh, how could they have dared to do it? How could they have dared to do it?"
"It was a beastly mistake," he admitted. A whirlwind of scorn seemed to sweep over her. She could keep still no longer. She walked up and down the little room. Her hands were clenched, her eyes flashing.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
They have grown used to their own unreason; chaos is their cosmos; and the whirlwind is the breath of their nostrils. These nations are really in danger of going off their heads en masse; of becoming one vast vision of imbecility, with toppling cities and crazy country-sides, all dotted with industrious lunatics. One of these countries is modern England.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
Aunt Hannah was very kind and motherly, but she kept us in fear of her ferule, which indicated to us a possibility of smarting palms. This ferule was shaped much like the stick with which she stirred her hasty pudding for dinner,--I thought it was the same, --and I found myself caught in a whirlwind of family laughter by reporting at home that "Aunt Hannah punished the scholars with the pudding-stick."英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
gentlemen, how little a thing is your assembly and your verdict in the history of humanity; and human history, in its turn, is likewise a very little thing in the whirlwind which bears it through immensity, and which is destined to disappear, or at least to be transformed, in order to begin again the same history and the same facts, a veritably perpetual play of cosmic forces renewing and transferring themselves forever."英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
They came up in a small whirlwind of speed and dust, and Smoky was under the wire to his ears when Skeeter's nose showed beyond it. Little Lost was jubilant. Jeff Hall and his backers were not.英文原著 · 《Cow-Country》
You know what The Beatles did when they got back to England after their first whirlwind tour of America?美剧 · 《Billions》
I spent the last 18 hours in a whirlwind of Mike Prince research wining, dining, drugging, grooming, levering, horse-trading...美剧 · 《Billions》
He's the only Gallagher who hasn't been ruined by that whirlwind known as Monica.美剧 · 《Shameless》
Why did my impulsive, whirlwind marriage to a gun-toting barista not work out?美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》