The occasional criminal "represents by far the largest class of our prison population, hence is the greatest menace to social well-being." What is the cause that compels a vast army of the human family to take to crime, to prefer the hideous life within prison walls to the life outside? Certainly that cause must be an iron master, who leaves its victims no avenue of escape, for the most depraved human being loves liberty.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
He had eaten the body of a lion that had died of disease at the menagerie. He ate with avidity the most disgusting things to satiate his depraved appetite. He showed further signs of a perverted mind by classifying the animals of the menagerie according to the form of their excrement, of which he had a collection. He died of indigestion following a meal of eight pounds of hot bread. Percy saw the famous Tarrare, who died at Versailles, at about twenty-six years of age. At seventeen he weighed 100 pounds. He ate a quarter of beef in twenty-four hours. He was fond of the most revolting things.英文原著 · 《Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine》
"But it is not!" he answered, when he had smelled it. "It is plain milk! Come, my friend," he continued, looking drolly at me, "have you turned leech, or I babe is arms that you put such strong liquors before me? However, to show you that I have some childish tastes left, and am not so depraved as you have been trying to make me out for the last hour--I will drink your health in it. It would serve you right if I made you pledge me in the same liquor!"英文原著 · 《From the Memoirs of a Minister of France》
"Why don't you tell me your story? Then I'll know what to do, and perhaps can help you. You don't look like a depraved woman."英文原著 · 《He Fell In Love With His Wife》
And lo! towards us coming in a boat
An old man, hoary with the hair of eld,
Crying: "Woe unto you, ye souls depraved!英文原著 · 《Inferno》
Me being a doctor is too important to me and, fuck it, the world, for me to give it up so that you people can take one bad man off the street-- regardless of how rich or powerful or depraved he may be.美剧 · 《Billions》
To keep the aromas from escaping, and to hide this shameful and depraved act from god.美剧 · 《Billions》