I know no name for this but Chinese. It calls up the mental picture of some archaic and changeless Eastern Court, in which men with dried faces and stiff ceremonial costumes perform some atrocious cruelty to the accompaniment of formal proverbs and sentences of which the very meaning has been forgotten. In both cases the only thing in the whole farrago that can be called real is the wrong. If we apply the lightest touch of reason to the whole Epping prosecution it dissolves into nothing.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
The man, keeping the dagger in one hand, thought to plunge it into the belly of the too confiding panther, but he afraid that he would be immediately strangled in her last convulsive struggle; besides, he felt in his heart a sort of remorse which bid him respect a creature that had done him no harm. He seemed to have found a friend, in a boundless desert; half unconsciously he thought of his first sweetheart, whom he had nicknamed "Mignonne" by way of contrast, because she so atrociously jealous that all the time of their love he in fear of the knife with which she had always threatened him.英文原著 · 《A Passion in the Desert》
"What atrocious villains!" the General cried. Loyal and generous indignation silenced prudence and pain on his own account.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
"Then I came back to France, where it was reserved for me to see my family suffer atrociously. This was the last drop in the cup of my sorrow. Tired of leading this life of suffering and cowardice, I carried this bomb to those who are primarily responsible for social sufferings.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
August 13th. The Count's conduct is atrocious, and yet I understand it. His pride, his whole character, despotic; the horror of having been deceived. And besides, is he really Stephane's father? These two children born after six years of marriage, and a few years later to discover. Suspicions often have less foundation. And then this fatal resemblance which keeps the image of the faithless one constantly before his eyes! The more decided the resemblance, the greater must be his hatred.英文原著 · 《Andre Cornelis》
Last Saturday those two desirable friends of Percy's spent the whole afternoon playing with my boys. They brought up three rifles, and each man took the lead of a camp of Indians, and passed the afternoon in a bottle shooting contest, with a prize for the winning camp. They brought the prize with them--an atrocious head of an Indian painted on leather. Dreadful taste; but the men thought it lovely, so I admired it with all the ardor I could assume.英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》