Messala, driver. Colors, scarlet and gold. A four of Cleanthes the Athenian--three gray, one bay; winners at the Isthmian last year. Cleanthes, driver. Color, green. A four of Dicaeus the Byzantine--two black, one gray, one bay; winners this year at Byzantium. Dicaeus, driver. Color, black.英文原著 · 《Ben-Hur》
Spread your legs more. Make a noise on your face as if you was being pulled to pieces an' that all that holds you is will-power.--That's the idea! That's the stuff! It's a winner, Bill! It's a winner!--Throw the leather into 'em! Make 'm jump! Make 'm get right down and pull the daylights out of each other!"
The whips fell on the horses, and the horses struggled in all their hugeness and might to pull away from the pain of the punishment. It was a spectacle to win approval from any audience.英文原著 · 《Michael, Brother of Jerry》
Her woman's eye seized another phenomenon--the hands. Not nations only, but varieties of the animal kingdom were represented. Here were the white hands of fair women, and the red paws of obese shop-keepers, and the yellow, bird-like claws of old withered gamesters, all stretched out, side by side, in strange contrast, to place the stakes or scratch in the winnings; and often the winners put their palms or paws on their heap of gold, just as a dog does on a bone when other dogs are nigh.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
One hundred thousand sestertii and a crown of laurel were the prizes. Then followed the particulars. The entries were six in all--fours only permitted; and, to further interest in the performance, the competitors would be turned into the course together. Each four then received description. A four of Lysippus the Corinthian--two grays, a bay, and a black; entered at Alexandria last year, and again at Corinth, where they were winners. Lysippus, driver. Color, yellow. A four of Messala of Rome--two white, two black; victors of the Circensian as exhibited in the Circus Maximus last year.英文原著 · 《Ben-Hur》
There are no colors in the saloon but his. No one thinks of his defeat. Why, they say, is he not perfect in his training? Did he not graduate from an imperial lanista? Were not his horses winners at the Circensian in the Circus Maximus? And then--ah, yes! he is a Roman! In a corner, at ease on the divan, Messala himself may be seen.英文原著 · 《Ben-Hur》
"He's lost 'em! They'll break! They're away!" was the cry. Sam'l was half up the wheel of the Kenmuir wagon; every man was on his toes; ladies were standing in their carriages; even Jim Mason's face flushed with momentary excitement. The sheep were tearing along the hillside, all together, like a white scud. After them,, galloping like a Waterloo winner, raced Red Wull. And last of all, leaping over the ground like a demoniac, making not for the two flags, but the plank-bridge, the white-haired figure of M'Adam. "He's beat!英文原著 · 《Bob Son of Battle》
Whichever one makes me want to hurl the most, that's your winner.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
The war metaphor forces us into thinking that you're the winner and I lost, The war metaphor forces us into thinking that you're the winner and I lost,演讲 · 《Cohen For argument's sake ~ Daniel H.》