Before Seyavi made baskets for the satisfaction of desire,--for that is a house-bred theory of art that makes anything more of it,--she danced and dressed her hair. In those days, when the spring was at flood and the blood pricked to the mating fever, the maids chose their flowers, wreathed themselves, and danced in the twilights, young desire crying out to young desire. They sang what the heart prompted, what the flower expressed, what boded in the mating weather.英文原著 · 《The Land of Little Rain》
Though she were on the other side of the world and busied about a thousand things. "��WITH one,' I see it must be rather than ��OF one.' That ��of one' is just the unexpurgated egotistical demand coming back again. "Man is a mating creature. It is not good to be alone. But mating means a mate. "We should be lovers, of course; that goes without saying. "And yet not specialized lovers, not devoted, ATTENDING lovers. ��Dancing attendance'--as they used to say.英文原著 · 《The Research Magnificent》
In the mating season the female may be seen perching -- a posture one rarely catches her gay lover in -- preening her dainty but sombre feathers with ladylike nicety. The young birds do a great deal of perching before they gain the marvellously rapid wing-motions of maturity, but they are ready to fly within three weeks after they are hatched. By the time the trumpet-vine is in bloom they dart and sip and utter a shrill little squeak among the flowers, in company with the old birds.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
LAVARCHAM -- moved. -- It isn't I'll be well pleased and I far away from you. Isn't it a hard thing you're doing, but who can help it? Birds go mating in the spring of the year, and ewes at the leaves falling, but a young girl must have her lover in all the courses of the sun and moon. DEIRDRE. Will you go to Emain in the morning?英文原著 · 《Deirdre of the Sorrows》
378-382) And Eos bare to Astraeus the strong-hearted winds, brightening Zephyrus, and Boreas, headlong in his course, and Notus, -- a goddess mating in love with a god. And after these Erigenia (16) bare the star Eosphorus (Dawn-bringer), and the gleaming stars with which heaven is crowned.英文原著 · 《Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica》
Fragment #3 -- Scholiast on Homer, Odyssey, x. 494: They say that Teiresias saw two snakes mating on Cithaeron and that, when he killed the female, he was changed into a woman, and again, when he killed the male, took again his own nature. This same Teiresias was chosen by Zeus and Hera to decide the question whether the male or the female has most pleasure in intercourse. And he said:英文原著 · 《Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica》
When you consider how humans evolved, they were probably used to mating in public.美剧 · 《Shameless》
For vulcans, mating-- or if you will, pon fahr-- It's an extremely private matter.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
Am I correct in assuming that your attempt to be accepted By Penny's peers is based on your desire to ensure Your continuing mating privileges with her?美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》