For one thing, sires, safely dare I say, That friends the one the other must obey, If they will longe holde company. Love will not be constrained by mastery. When mastery comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings--and, farewell! he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free. Women desire, by nature, liberty, And not to be constrained as a thrall, And so do men, if I the truth say shall. Look, who that is most patient in love, He is at his advantage all above. A virtue high is patience, certain, Because it vanquisheth, as clerks explain, Things to which rigour never could attain.英文原著 · 《Chaucer》
Yet if the thought of Hope at this time came over him, it came as a constraint, and he disliked it as such; and the more generous and beautiful she was, the greater the constraint. He cursed himself that he had allowed himself to be swayed back to her, and so had lost Emilia forever. And thus he drifted on, not knowing what he wished for, but knowing extremely well what he feared.英文原著 · 《Malbone》
It persuadeth me, I know not how, it toucheth me inwardly with a caressing hand, it constraineth me. Yea, it constraineth me, so that my soul stretcheth itself out:--英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
That was all. Just a girlish, constrained letter, hardly hinting at the hot tears that had been shed for many weary nights, coyly telling of the impatient young love and all the maidenly shame.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
No, I won't disturb Emile. He may be working."
Vere felt that somehow her eager suggestion had deepened the constraint. She said no more, and Hermione presently crossed over to the mainland and began her walk to the road that leads from Naples to Bagnoli. Where was she going? What was she really about to do? Certainly she would not adopt the suggestion of Vere. Emile was the last person whom she wished to see--by whom she wished to be seen-- just then. The narrow path turned away from the sea into the shadow of high banks.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
Realize that limits, constraints, they can be useful.美剧 · 《Billions》