Whether it that his will powerfully projected had modified the character of his companion, or whether, because she found abundant food in her predatory excursions in the desert, she respected the man's life, he began to fear for it no longer, seeing her so well tamed.英文原著 · 《A Passion in the Desert》
280-277 Antigonus Gonatas . 277-239 Demetrius II . 239-229 Antigonus Doson . 229-220 Philip V . 220-178 Perseus . 178-167
In the following gear Antigonus was succeeded by Philip V., the son of Demetrius II., who was then about sixteen or seventeen years of age. His youth encouraged the AEtolians to make predatory incursions into the Peloponnesus. That people were a species of freebooters, and the terror of their neighbours; yet they were united, like the Achaeans, in a confederacy or league.英文原著 · 《A Smaller History of Greece》
Later on he came out to White on the balcony, with a luminous, grim predatory smile on his face.英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
We can't break Tammas of his inherited predatory instincts. He shoots the chickens with bows and arrows and lassoes the pigs and plays bull-fight with the cows--and oh, is very destructive! But his crowning villainy occurred an hour before the trustees' meeting, when we wanted to be so clean and sweet and engaging.英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
An education for social purposes is n't of any more use than a razor purchased for a like use. An education which merely fits a person to prey on society, and occasionally slash it up, is a predatory preparation for a life of uselessness, and closes no prison. Rather it opens a prison and takes captive at least one man. The only education that makes free is the one that tends to human efficiency. Teach children to work, play, laugh, fletcherize, study, think, and yet again--work, and we will raze every prison.英文原著 · 《John Jacob Astor》
in large waters, was gone. They looked uncouth and predatory, like英文原著 · 《Little Rivers》