First, That a man's help against sin doth not so absolutely lie in his personal conquest as in the pardon of them. I suppose a conquest, though there can indeed by man be none so long as he liveth in this world, I mean, a complete conquest and annihilation of sin.英文原著 · 《The Pharisee And The Publican》
"What his designs for Rome? There, my brother, there tends my secret soul! As for these petty towns and petty tyrants, I care not how they fall, or by whom. But the Pope must not return to Rome. Rome must be mine. The city of a new empire, the conquest of a new Attila! There, every circumstance combines in my favour! - the absence of the Pope, the weakness of the middle class, the poverty of the populace, the imbecile though ferocious barbarism of the Barons, have long concurred to render Rome the most facile, while the most glorious conquest!"英文原著 · 《Rienzi》
Saxo associates another set of enactments with the completion of a successful campaign of conquest over the Ruthenians, and shows Frode chiefly as a wise and civilising statesman, making conquest mean progress.英文原著 · 《The Danish History》
Then Montriveau felt the hardness of a woman as cold and keen as a steel blade; she was crushing in her scorn. In one moment she had snapped the bonds which held firm only for her lover. She had read Armand's intention in his face, and held that the moment had come for teaching the Imperial soldier his lesson. He was to be made to feel that though duchesses may lend themselves to love, they do not give themselves, and that the conquest of one of them would prove a harder matter than the conquest of Europe.英文原著 · 《The Duchesse de Langeais》
Yet there have been, and there still are, many who take a seeming delight in telling you how many conquests they have made, and they not infrequently have the bad taste to explain with wearisome prolixity the ways and the means whereby those conquests were wrought; as, forsooth, an unfeeling huntsman is forever boasting of the game he has slaughtered and is forever dilating upon the repulsive details of his butcheries.英文原著 · 《The Love Affairs Of A Bibliomaniac》
Biblioth. Ang., xiii, part II, art. See Solis, History of the Conquest of Mexico, and Garcilasso de la Vega, History of the Conquest of Peru. Labat, New Voyage to the Isles of America, iv, p. 114, 1728, 12mo. Present State of Russia. Dampier, Voyages, iii. Politics, i.英文原著 · 《The Spirit of Laws》
And on this hallowed ground, the site of my greatest conquests, you have the impertinence to show your weakest self.美剧 · 《Billions》
The way they dealt with adversity, conducted illicit affairs, endured domestic dramas, and planned romantic conquests.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》