What could he do to revivify his clergy? He wished he had more personal magnetism, he wished he had a darker and a larger presence. He wished he had not been saddled with Whippham's rather futile son as his chaplain. He wished he had a dean instead of being his own dean. With an unsympathetic rector. He wished he had it in him to make some resounding appeal. He might of course preach a series of thumping addresses and sermons, rather on the lines of "Fors Clavigera," to masters and men, in the Cathedral. Only it was so difficult to get either masters or men into the Cathedral.英文原著 · 《Soul of a Bishop》
Little Elsa cried bitterly when he was gone, for she did not want to make her husband unhappy and cross, and she wanted the house to look nice. "Oh, dear," she sobbed, "I wish I could do things right! I wish I could work! I wish--I wish I had ten good fairies to work for me! Then I could keep the house!"英文原著 · 《How To Tell Stories To Children》
I wish I knew how they move those tiny wings of theirs--a thousand times in a second, I dare say, some of them. I wish I knew how far they know that they are happy--for happy they must be, whether they know it or not. I wish I knew how they live at all. I wish I even knew how many sorts there are humming round us at this moment. How many kinds? Three or four? More probably thirty or forty round this single tree. But why should there be so many kinds of living things?英文原著 · 《Madam How and Lady Why》
"Mo-sar wishes to be king," he said, "and Lu-don wishes to be king. Mo-sar wishes to retain the stranger who claims to be the Dor-ul-Otho and Lu-don wishes to kill him, and now," he leaned even closer to the ear of the high priest of Tu-lur, "if you would be high priest at A-lur it is within your power."英文原著 · 《Tarzan the Terrible》
Lily, will you say that it shall be so? Speak, Lily. There is no one that will not be glad. Your uncle will consent--has consented. Your mother wishes it. Bell wishes it. My mother wishes it. Lady Julia wishes it.英文原著 · 《The Last Chronicle of Barset》
And that might have arisen in so many other ways. Real responsible woman has never been silly; and any one wishing to knock her would be wise (like the street- boys) to knock and run away. It is ultimately idiotic to compare this prehistoric participation with any royalties or rebellions. Genuine royalties wish to crush rebellions. Genuine rebels wish to destroy kings. The sexes cannot wish to abolish each other; and if we allow them any sort of permanent opposition it will sink into something as base as a party system.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
I wish I was a neutron bomb For once I could go off I wish I was a sacrifice But somehow still lived on I wish I was a sentimental Ornament you hung on.美剧 · 《Billions》
Julie, if you're about to wish that your mom would stop trying to figure out your life for you, you're about to waste a wish.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
"If I had a wish, I'd wish for three more wishes." ROSS & MONICA: Hey, Joey. - Hey, buddy.美剧 · 《Friends》
I used to wish that I had never married, that I had never had children. I used to wish that I had never married, that I had never had children.演讲 · 《Love, no matter what ~ Andrew Solomon》