And to-morrow, it may be, I shall die! And there will not be left on earth one being who has understood me completely. Some will con- sider me worse, others, better, than I have been in reality. Some will say: 'he was a good fellow'; others: 'a villain.' And both epithets will be false. After all this, is life worth the trouble? And yet we live -- out of curiosity! We expect something new. How absurd, and yet how vexatious!英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
It was hard to keep the boys from going off to sea before they were grown. No inland occupation attracted them. "Land-lubber" was one of the most contemptuous epithets heard from boyish lips. The spirit of adventure developed in them a rough, breezy type of manliness, now almost extinct.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
"I meant in town, or wherever he lives his mysterious life," explained Nasmyth, when I told him that he could see for himself. But his clever tone did not trouble me; it was his epithet that caused me to prick my ears. And I found some difficulty in following Raffles right round the room.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
You may imagine with what alacrity we complied; and yet I am bound to confess that I had never liked Nab at school. I still remember my term in his form. He had a caustic tongue and fine assortment of damaging epithets, most of which were levelled at my devoted skull during those three months. I now discovered that he also kept a particularly mellow Scotch whiskey, an excellent cigar, and a fund of anecdote of which a mordant wit was the worthy bursar. Enough to add that he kept us laughing in his study until the chapel bells rang him out.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
"A band of medical students determined that for once _'a priori_ reasoning should have fair play, and not be crushed by a thing so illusory as fact. Accordingly, they got the gates closed, and collected round them. We came up, one after another, and were received with hisses, groans, and abusive epithets.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
"Our lioness subscribed five pounds, and became entitled to vote and speech. As the foulest epithets had been hurled at her by the union, and a certain professor had told her, to her face, no respectable woman would come to him and propose to study medicine, she said, publicly, that she had come to his opinion, and respectable women would avoid him--which caused a laugh.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
I say, given your overall demeanor and your freewheeling use of epithets, I'm willing to bet that he was provoked.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
"Upon which was painted a derogatory epithet for an African-American." - I'm sorry, I nodded off while you were saying that. - Get out!美剧 · 《The News Room》
Neither I nor she would ever thrust such a crude epithet upon ourselves.美剧 · 《White Collar》