"By Gad!" said one over his cups, "there are things even a rake-hell fellow like me cannot do; but he does them, and seems not to know that they are to his discredit."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
ah, what consideration had I to give? I turned from them with distaste. "My cousin Evelyn gave me no help. She was a proud woman and loved my money and my expectations as much as she did me. "'If you must marry another woman to retain your wealth, marry, said she, 'but do not marry one of my associates. I will have no rival in my own empire; your wife must be a plainer and a less aspiring woman than Evelyn Blake. Yet do not discredit your name, --which is mine,' she would always add. "Meanwhile the days flew by.英文原著 · 《A Strange Disappearance》
The clever notary was giving them the history of the discreditable ways in which one du Tillet (a stockbroker then much in favor) had laid the foundations of his fortune; all the ins and outs of the whole disgraceful business were accurately put before them; and the narrator was in the very middle of his tale when M. de Vandenesse heard the clock strike nine. Then it became clear to him that his legal adviser was very emphatically an idiot who must be sent forthwith about his business. He stopped him resolutely with a gesture.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
"Not in our family. Besides, even a special license takes time, I suppose. Oh no, I could not be married in a clandestine, discreditable way. I am a Vizard--please remember that. Would you degrade the woman you honor with your choice?"英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
Better is it not to win a discreditable victory, than to make justice miscarry by an invidious exercise of power; for such a victory, though men think it sweet for the moment, grows barren in time and comes near being a stain on a house. This is the life I commend, this the life I set before me as my ideal, to exercise no authority beyond what is right either in the marriage-chamber or in the state.英文原著 · 《Andromache》
Shakespeare's father, while an alderman at Stratford, appears to have been unable to write his name, but as at that time nine men out of ten were content to make their mark for a signature, the fact is not specially to his discredit.英文原著 · 《Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare》
My goal on this show is gonna be to discredit that woman and tell people, even though my father did a bad thing,美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
He will either ruin, threaten, pressure or otherwise discredit and destroy you, since you'll be bringing the case.美剧 · 《Billions》