The Native witch-doctors in the early days took advantage of their credulity, whilst civilized people traded on their susceptibilities, and the semi-civilized Natives also traded upon the fears of their more impressionable brethren.英文原著 · 《Native Life in South Africa》
"He backs himself to crawl--until he crawls triumphantly right over you . I don't like to think of the dream he has . I take it he will lose. Is it fair to go into this game with him?" "In the interests of Lake," she said, smiling softly at Sir Richmond in the moonlight. "But you are perfectly right." "And suppose he doesn't lose!" Sir Richmond found himself uttering sentiments. "There is only one decent way in which a civilized man and a civilized woman may approach one another. Passionate desire is not enough. What is called love is not enough.英文原著 · 《The Secret Places of the Heart》
"All right," grunted Gillispie, in tacit acceptance of this apology. "I guess you thought you was in civilized parts."英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
"Well, sir, in 1849 Miss Elizabeth Blackwell fought the good fight in the United States, and had her troubles; because the States were not so civilized then as now. She graduated doctor at Geneva, in the State of New York.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
"All her trouble ended--where her competitors' began--at the public examination. She passed brilliantly, and is an English apothecary. In civilized France she is a learned physician.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
"Poverty! the poverty of a company in the city of London! _Allons donc._ Well, sir, for years after this all Europe, even Russia, advanced in civilization, and opened their medical schools to women; so did the United States: only the pig-headed Briton stood stock-still, and gloried in his minority of one; as if one small island is likely to be right in its monomania, and all civilized nations wrong.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
[Gasps] I could do my "Eliza Doolittle" before she was civilized" walk.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
You know, back before Texas was civilized, if you were a Ranger and one of your compatriots fell at the hands of a rustler, you'd bring that rustler in dead if you brought him in at all.美剧 · 《Billions》
And if it does rise, I will do my best to bring it to you in a civilized manner.美剧 · 《Billions》
And that was one of the more civilized responses.美剧 · 《Billions》