" Not but what the roan was a better trotter than yours" .
“不过那只马比你的好”。
牛虻(原版)
If anyone comes between you and our horses, kill him. I take the roan.
如果有人挡在你和我们的马匹之间,杀了他。我拿罗恩。
建筑文摘
He's a blue roan and he is 16 and a half hands, he's very tall.
他是一只蓝马,16 岁半,个子很高。
彼得兔和他的朋友们(下)
Then with a rattle and a jingle of cans came Robinson's cousin, little Tom Pigg, driving a strawberry roan pony, in a milk float.
然后,随着嘎嘎声和罐头叮当声, 罗宾逊的表弟小汤姆·皮格驾着一辆牛奶花车, 骑着一辆草莓矮马。
伊坦·弗洛美
He opened the barn-door and craned his head into the obscurity, half-fearing to discover Denis Eady's roan colt in the stall beside the sorrel.
他打开谷仓门,把头伸进黑暗中,有点害怕在酢浆草旁边的马厩里发现丹尼斯·伊迪的小马驹。
彼得兔和他的朋友们(下)
He might have offered Robinson a lift, only he happened to be going in the opposite direction; in fact, the strawberry roan pony was running away home.
他本可以让罗宾逊搭便车,只是他碰巧朝相反的方向走;事实上,草莓红小马正跑回家。
纯真年代(上)
A street-lamp faced him, and in its light he saw Julius Beaufort's compact English brougham, drawn by a big roan, and the banker descending from it, and helping out Madame Olenska.
The roan was close at hand, and in another instant all would have been safe; but as the figure in the scarlet cassock stepped forward, the Gadfly suddenly wavered and the hand with the pistol sank down.
" Why, waiting for me to take a ride. I got the roan colt too. I kinder knew I'd want to take a ride to-night, " Eady, in his triumph, tried to put a sentimental note into his bragging voice.