It is robbery, humiliation, and slow, slow murder, through poverty and the white man's whisky. The savage's gentle friend, the savage's noble friend, the only magnanimous and unselfish friend the savage has ever had, was not there with the merciful swift release of his poisoned pudding. There are many humorous things in the world; among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages. --[See Chapter on Tasmania, post.]英文原著 · 《Following the Equator》
Louis XIV. had often much need of him: still oftener, and more pressingly, had Kaiser Leopold, the little Gentleman "in scarlet stockings, with a red feather in his hat," whom Mr. Savage used to see majestically walking about, with Austrian lip that said nothing at all. [ A Compleat History of Germany, by Mr. Savage (8vo, London, 1702), p. Who this Mr. Savage was, we have no trace. Prefixed to the volume is the Portrait of a solid Gentleman of forty: gloomily polite, with ample wig and cravat,--in all likelihood some studious subaltern Diplomatist in the Succession War.英文原著 · 《History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 3》
On his way he encountered the King of Paspahegh, "a most strong, stout savage," who, seeing that Smith had only his falchion, attempted to shoot him. Smith grappled him; the savage prevented his drawing his blade, and bore him into the river to drown him. Long they struggled in the water, when the President got the savage by the throat and nearly strangled him, and drawing his weapon, was about to cut off his head, when the King begged his life so pitifully, that Smith led him prisoner to the fort and put him in chains.英文原著 · 《The Complete Writings-3》
"Grip the savage by the throat. "The weak savage in the foreign office, the weak savage at the party headquarters, feud and indolence and folly. It is all one world. This and that are all one thing. The spites of London and the mutilations of Macedonia. The maggots that eat men's faces and the maggots that rot their minds. Rot their minds. Rot their minds.英文原著 · 《The Research Magnificent》
Jupiter does not mean thunder. Thunder means the march and victory of Jupiter. Neptune does not mean the sea; the sea is his, and he made it. In other words, what the savage really said about the sea was, "Only my fetish Mumbo could raise such mountains out of mere water." What the savage really said about the sun was," Only my great- great-grandfather Jumbo could deserve such a blazing crown."英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
Then he came back to life and hope. With one bound he sprang to a porthole. "God, what a woman!" he said between his teeth, as hi thrust the rifle forward. It was indeed not a time for inaction. The Indians, realizing they had been tricked and had lost a golden opportunity, rushed at the Fort with renewed energy. They attacked from all sides and with the persistent fury of savages long disappointed in their hopes. They were received with a scathing, deadly fire. roared the cannon, and the detachment of savages dropped their ladders and fled.英文原著 · 《Betty Zane》
No, we've just been conditioned by a rugged individualist culture woven into the savage architecture of our country itself, birthed as it was through violent uprising, but perhaps popularized in the modern imagination by stories of-- Okay, Chomsky, when I want you to talk, I'll staple a string to yo美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
Come on! What other gal's got the get-up-and-go to tame those savage sun beasts and become their queen?美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》