When the people realized the victory they behaved like mad. On the houses far as the Xystus, fast as the word could fly, they waved their shawls and handkerchiefs and shouted; and if he had consented, the Galileans would have carried Ben-Hur off upon their shoulders. To a petty officer who then advanced from the gate he said, "Thy comrade died like a soldier. I leave him undespoiled. Only his sword and shield are mine."
With that, he walked away. Off a little he spoke to the Galileans. "Brethren, you have behaved well. Let us now separate, lest we be pursued.英文原著 · 《Ben-Hur》
But the boys determined privately to make Brumle-Knute their prisoner, in case he showed any disposition to spoil their sport. To spend a day and a night in the woods, to imagine themselves Vikings, and behave as they imagined Vikings would behave, was a prospect which no one could contemplate without the most delightful excitement. There, far away from sheriffs and pastors and maternal supervision, they might perhaps find the long-desired chance of performing their heroic deed.英文原著 · 《Boyhood in Norway》
The surest method of teaching people to behave honestly towards us is to behave friendly and honestly towards them, and then there is no great reason to fear, that such as give evident proofs of capacity and civility in the common affairs of life should be guilty of treachery that must turn to their own disadvantage.英文原著 · 《Early Australian Voyages》
"They seemed to think," he continued, pursuing his Newport train of thought, "that to prove you were a dead game sport you must behave like-- behave like--"英文原著 · 《Lady Baltimore》
" 'Because I know how to behave like a saint; whereas you--you behave like a fool. Why, you can't stop swearing for an hour, and you would be breaking all the mugs after dinner!'英文原著 · 《Mauprat》
``Well,'' said Jane, ``I guess it's good I did, because look--that's the very reason mamma did somep'm so's he can't come any more except in daytime. I guess she thought Willie oughtn't to behave so's't you said so many things about him like that; so to-day she did somep'm, an' now he can't come any more to behave that loving way of Miss Pratt that you said you would be in the lunatic asylum if he didn't quit. But he hasn't found it out yet.''英文原著 · 《Seventeen》
There is a look the parents of well-behaved children give to the parents of the not so well-behaved.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》