Jasher, visibly moved by this flattery. "You will make a very good husband if you will only strive to govern your temper."
"Temper! temper! Bless the woman - I mean you, Selina - I have the very best temper in the world. However, you shall govern it and myself also if you like. Come," he took her hand, "let us be friends and fix the wedding day."
Mrs. Jasher did not withdraw her hand. "Then you do not believe that I have anything to do with this terrible murder?" she asked playfully.英文原著 · 《The Green Mummy》
The reader will notice that the aberrations produced at a very low temperature (from 0 to -20 deg C.) are absolutely identical with the aberrations produced by exposing the pupae to extremely high temperatures (42 to 46 deg C.). Moreover the aberrations produced by a moderately low temperature (from 0 to 10 deg C.) are identical with the aberrations produced by a moderately high temperature (36 to 41 deg C.)英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
And the soul which has order is orderly? Of course. And that which is orderly is temperate? Assuredly. And the temperate soul is good? No other answer can I give, Callicles dear; have you any? Go on, my good fellow. Then I shall proceed to add, that if the, temperate soul is the good soul, the soul which is in the opposite condition, that is, the foolish and intemperate, is the bad soul.英文原著 · 《Gorgias》
But why? Were you not saying that the virtue of a man was to order a state, and the virtue of a woman was to order a house? I did say so. And can either house or state or anything be well ordered without temperance and without justice? Certainly not. Then they who order a state or a house temperately or justly order them with temperance and justice? Certainly. Then both men and women, if they are to be good men and women, must have the same virtues of temperance and justice?英文原著 · 《Meno》
If I could write just one poem full of beauty and the spirit of greatness, I should be exultantly silent for ever; but I sing just as the birds do, and my songs are as ephemeral." It is for this bird-like quality of song, it seems to me, that they are to be valued. They hint, in a sort of delicately evasive way, at a rare temperament, the temperament of a woman of the East, finding expression through a Western language and under partly Western influences. They do not express the whole of that temperament; but they express, I think, its essence; and there is an Eastern magic in them.英文原著 · 《The Golden Threshold》
SIR PETER. Plagues and tortures! She pretends to keep her temper,
can't I make her angry neither! I am the miserable fellow! But I'll not bear her presuming to keep her Temper--No she may
break my Heart--but she shan't keep her Temper. [Exit.]英文原著 · 《The School For Scandal》