The party in the cab looked hot, and tumbled, and cross. Da Souza was on his feet arguing with the lodge-keeper - the women seemed to be listening anxiously. Trent turned to the servant who was waiting upon him. "Send word down," he directed, "that I will see Mr. Da Souza alone. No one else is to be allowed to enter. Pass me the toast before you go."
Da Souza entered presently, apologetic and abject, prepared at the same time to extenuate and deny. Trent continued his breakfast coolly.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
Evelyn-White prefers a different order for lines #87-90 than that preserved in the MSS. This translation is based upon the following sequence: ll. 89,90,87,88. -- DBK. (26) `Cattle-earning', because an accepted suitor paid for his bride in cattle. (27) The name Aeneas is here connected with the epithet AIEOS (awful): similarly the name Odysseus is derived (in "Odyssey" i.62) from ODYSSMAI (I grieve). (28) Aphrodite extenuates her disgrace by claiming that the race of Anchises is almost divine, as is shown in the persons of Ganymedes and Tithonus. (29) So Christ connecting the word with OMOS.英文原著 · 《Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica》
The Countess was first tried. She trembled and shed tears during the reading of the indictment, and, in a low voice, pleaded guilty. On being asked why sentence of death should not be passed against her, she replied meekly, "I can much aggravate, but nothing extenuate my fault. I desire mercy, and that the lords will intercede for me with the King." Sentence of death was passed upon her.英文原著 · 《Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions-2》
QUI SUBTRAHIT ALIQUID A PATRE ET A MATRE, ET DICIT HOC NON ESSE PECCATUM, PARTICEPS EST HOMICIDII. Here is noted, that whereas men in wronging their best friends use to extenuate their fault, as if they might presume or be bold upon them, it doth contrariwise indeed aggravate their fault, and turneth it from injury to impiety.英文原著 · 《The Advancement of Learning》
Amelie felt half ashamed, for she was conscious that she was offering something unreal to extenuate the fault of her brother-- her hopes rather than her convictions.英文原著 · 《The Golden Dog》
Bigot started; drunk and reckless as he was, he did not like his secret to be divulged. He was angry with Cadet for referring to it in the presence of so many who knew not that a strange lady was residing at Beaumanoir. He was too thoroughly a libertine of the period to feel any moral compunction for any excess he committed. He was habitually more ready to glory over his conquests, than to deny or extenuate them. But in this case he had, to the surprise of Cadet, been very reticent, and shy of speaking of this lady even to him.英文原著 · 《The Golden Dog》