Marbles

(noun.) a children's game played with little balls made of a hard substance (as glass).

桃瑞丝整理

• This is not a time for a lady, however highly connected, to be totally inaudible, and seemingly swallowing marbles. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Genoa was the place to see the bad marbles. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• It is built entirely of precious marbles, brought from the Orient --nothing in its composition is domestic. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The mistress and maid had been in full feud the whole day, on the subject of preserving certain black cherries, hard as marbles, sour as sloes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The floors were laid in fanciful figures wrought in mosaics of many-colored marbles. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Heard Pickwick ask the boy the question about the marbles, but upon her oath did not know the difference between an 'alley tor' and a 'commoney. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• One had fancied that such lip-curves were mostly lurking underground in the South as fragments of forgotten marbles. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

整理:奥蒂斯