The Poonga-Poonga men's laughter died down, and they regarded the spectacle with glittering eyes and gluttonous expressions. The Tahitians, on the other hand, were shocked, and Adamu Adam was shaking his head slowly and grunting forth his disgust. Joan was angry. Her face was white, but in each cheek was a vivid spray of red. Disgust had been displaced by wrath, and her mood was clearly vengeful. Sheldon laughed. "It's nothing to be angry over," he said. "You mustn't forget that he hacked off Kwaque's head, and that he ate one of his own comrades that ran away with him.英文原著 · 《Adventure》
ANTONY. Count thy gains. Now, Antony, wouldst thou be born for this? Glutton of fortune, thy devouring youth Has starved thy wanting age.英文原著 · 《All For Love》
The waker goose, the cuckoo, ever unkind; The popinjay, full of delicacy; The drake, destroyer of his owne kind; The stork, avenger of adultery; The cormorant, hot and full of gluttony The crows and ravens with their voice of care; And the throstle old, and the frosty fieldfare.英文原著 · 《Chaucer》
Once upon a time in Flanders there was a company of young men, who gave themselves up to every kind of dissipation and debauchery--haunting the taverns where dancing and dicing continues day and night, eating and drinking, and serving the devil in his own temple by their outrageous life of luxury. It was horrible to hear their oaths, how they tore to pieces our blessed Lord's body, as if they thought the Jews had not rent Him enough; and each laughed at the sin of the others, and all were alike immersed in gluttony and wantonness.英文原著 · 《Chaucer》
If a glutton can be made to gormandize two hours upon two ounces of meat, it is certainly much better for him, than to give himself an indigestion by eating two pounds in the same time.英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
Juvenal similarly speaks of `cruda senectus' (caused by gluttony). (36) The thought is parallel to that of `O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath.' (37) The `common feast' is one to which all present subscribe. Theognis (line 495) says that one of the chief pleasures of a banquet is the general conversation. Hence the present passage means that such a feast naturally costs little, while the many present will make pleasurable conversation. (38) i.e. `do not cut your finger-nails'. (39) i.e. things which it would be sacrilege to disturb, such as tombs.英文原著 · 《Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica》
Accumulation with no end in sight is gluttony.美剧 · 《Billions》
You know what they say about ortolan-- one is bliss, two is gluttony.美剧 · 《Billions》
Now,of course,if that is the result of a glandular condition and not sloth and gluttony, I withdraw that comment.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》