"Sir," said Dr. Fusbius, "it is true. This lady, grossly contemning your Highness' decree, has refused my hand in marriage."英文原著 · 《Frivolous Cupid》
I confess that, at sight and thought of these things--of this country so devoured, the King's authority so contemned, all evils laid at his door, all his profits diverted--my anger burned within me, and I said more to Parabere than was perhaps prudent, telling him, in particular, what I designed against Bareilles, of whose double-dealing I needed no further proof; by what means I proposed to lull his suspicions for the moment, since we must lie at Gueret, and how I would afterwards, on the first occasion, have him seized and punished.英文原著 · 《From the Memoirs of a Minister of France》
"I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel; 'As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.'英文原著 · 《Henry Ossian Flipper》
For it leads to a crag's sheer edge with them; Youth, flowery all the way, there stops -- Not they; age threatens and they contemn, Till they reach the gulf wherein youth drops, One inch from our life's safe hem!英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》