For one thing, sires, safely dare I say, That friends the one the other must obey, If they will longe holde company. Love will not be constrained by mastery. When mastery comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings--and, farewell! he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free. Women desire, by nature, liberty, And not to be constrained as a thrall, And so do men, if I the truth say shall. Look, who that is most patient in love, He is at his advantage all above. A virtue high is patience, certain, Because it vanquisheth, as clerks explain, Things to which rigour never could attain.英文原著 · 《Chaucer》
CREON
Crave not mastery in all,
For the mastery that raised thee was thy bane and wrought thy fall.英文原著 · 《Oedipus the King》
'All this time neither the man nor the damsels had spoken one word, but when our dinner was half over, and my hunger was stilled, the man began to ask who I was. Then I told him my name and my father's name, and why I came there, for indeed I had grown weary of gaining the mastery over all men at home, and sought if perchance there was one who could gain the mastery over me. And at this the man smiled and answered:英文原著 · 《The Lilac Fairy Book》
For a minute horse and man struggled for the mastery, the horse spinning in short circles, the man pulling, tugging, urging him with knees and spurs. The first round ended in a draw. There were two more rounds with the advantage slightly in favor of El Capitan, for he did not approach the bridge.英文原著 · 《A Charmed Life》
ARBUTHNOT. I do not know it. I do not feel it, nor will I ever stand before God's altar and ask God's blessing on so hideous a mockery as a marriage between me and George Harford. I will not say the words the Church bids us to say. I will not say them. I dare not. How could I swear to love the man I loathe, to honour him who wrought you dishonour, to obey him who, in his mastery, made me to sin? No: marriage is a sacrament for those who love each other.英文原著 · 《A Woman of No Importance》
And Conwell himself is a dreamer: first of all he is a dreamer; it is the most important fact in regard to him! It is because he is a dreamer and visualizes his dreams that he can plan the great things that to other men would seem impossibilities; and then his intensely practical side his intense efficiency, his power, his skill, his patience, his fine earnestness, his mastery over others, develop his dreams into realities. He dreams dreams and sees visions--but his visions are never visionary and his dreams become facts.英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
It says that he's known me to be an amazing lawyer, that I've shown mastery of the material that he teaches, and that as far as he's concerned, I'm an outstanding student of the law.美剧 · 《Suits》
I've read that there are great yogis Who have such mastery over their bodies They can draw water in through their genitals.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
Dudamel's mastery of Mahler's 5th symphony last month was breathtaking.美剧 · 《White Collar》