So much boldness and confidence surprised and pleased me at the same time. The rights which she arrogated to herself over me were, in some measure, a sanction of those I claimed to have over her.英文原著 · 《Mauprat》
And yet with such a record against it--a record of the murder of innocent men and women who endeavored to promulgate the Divine Truths of nature--the Church still arrogated to itself the right to lay down a rule of life for intelligent people--a rule of life founded upon that impossible amalgamation of Judaism and Christianity. The science of the Church was not equal to the task of amalgamating two such deadly opponents.英文原著 · 《Phyllis of Philistia》
Rienzi continued. - "Yes, it is the people who intrusted this power - to the people, therefore, it belongs! Did the haughty Emperor arrogate the crown? Could he assume the authority of himself? Was it born with him? Did he derive it, my Lord Barons, from the possession of towered castles - of lofty lineage? all-powerful as he was, he had no right to one atom of that power, save from the voice and trust of the Roman people. Such, O my countrymen!英文原著 · 《Rienzi》
"He was offered, and he refused, the title. His present rank, which arrogates no patrician honours, went far to conciliate the nobles."英文原著 · 《Rienzi》
"This all-too-humble soul would arrogate
Unto itself some signalising hate
From the supreme indifference of Fate!" 20英文原著 · 《The City of Dreadful Night》
It will be thought, perhaps, that I draw the character of the Abbe de Vermond too unfavourably; but how can I view with any complacency one who, after having arrogated to himself the office of confidant and sole counsellor of the Queen, guided her with so little prudence, and gave us the mortification of seeing that Princess blend, with qualities which charmed all that surrounded her, errors alike injurious to her glory and her happiness?英文原著 · 《The Memoirs of Marie Antoinette》
AI 补充例句(附中文翻译)
The dictator attempted to arrogate the power of the courts to himself.
They cannot simply arrogate to themselves the right to decide our future.
No government should arrogate the authority to censor private conversations among citizens.