As I pass along the Prado, I shall be taken for a walking Omelet, or some large Onion running to seed! '
当我经过 Prado 时,我会被认为是一个行走的煎蛋卷,或者一些正在结籽的大洋葱!
福尔摩斯探案集:新探案(下)
The garden was all running to seed, giving me an impression of wild neglect in which the plants had been allowed to find the way of Nature rather than of art.
花园里到处都是种子, 给我的印象是植物在其中被允许找到自然之道而不是艺术之道。
远大前程(原版)
I thought it a little too much that he should complain of being cut short in his flower after all, as if he had not been running to seed, leaf after leaf, ever since his course began.