"Ares is represented as a warlike god, emulous, and covetous of sheep and other things. But in the end they say he was taken in adultery with Aphrodite by the child Eros and Hephaestus and was bound by them. How then can the covetous, the warrior, the bondman and adulterer be a god?英文原著 · 《Barlaam and Ioasaph》
A friend of Dr. Poulain who attended the last days of Sylvain Pons, he gave crafty counsel to Mme. Cibot, who coveted the chattels of the old bachelor. He also assured the Camusot de Marvilles that they should be the legatees of the old musician despite the faithful Schmucke. In 1845 he succeeded Vitel as justice of the peace; the coveted place being secured for him by Camusot de Marville, as a fee for his services. In Normandy he again acted successfully for this family. Fraisier was a dried-up little man with a blotched face and an unpleasant odor. At Mantes a certain Mme.英文原著 · 《Repertory of the Comedie Humaine-1》
For he is covetous and jealous, the monk in the moon; covetous of the earth, and all the joys of lovers.英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
I cannot imagine what I meant to do with him. I knew that his paint was poisonous, and I could not have intended to eat him; there were much better candies in my father's window; he would not sell these dangerous painted toys to children. But the little man was pretty to look at, and I wanted him, and meant to have him. It was just a child's first temptation to get possession of what was not her own,--the same ugly temptation that produces the defaulter, the burglar, and the highway robber, and that made it necessary to declare to every human being the law, "Thou shalt not covet."英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
I listened to all that was said about it, very much fearing that I should not be permitted to do the coveted work. For the feeling had already frequently come to me, that I was the one too many in the overcrowded family nest. Once, before we left our old home, I had heard a neighbor condoling with my mother because there were so many of us, and her emphatic reply had been a great relief to my mind:--英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
A brief conference took place between the captain of the privateer and his lieutenant and a sailor, who seemed to be the mate of the vessel; then the mate gave a whistle, and the men jumped on board the /Saint- Ferdinand/, and completely dismantled her with the nimble dexterity of a soldier who strips a dead comrade of a coveted overcoat and shoes.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
And a sitting United States Attorney cannot be seen to be coveting higher public office.美剧 · 《Billions》
Widespread ads targeted at your most coveted customers.美剧 · 《Billions》
"don't say bad words." "you're not allowed to cheat on tests." "it's not nice to lie to your friends." "you shouldn't covet a man who isn't yours." "and you shouldn't betray a man who is." So we grow up, and still we break the rules...美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》