The use of the word "wanton" is not necessarily disparaging, for "wanton" in that age was frequently synonymous with "playful" and "sportive"; but it is singular that she should be spoken of as "well featured, but wanton." Strachey, however, gives in another place what is no doubt the real significance of the Indian name "Pocahontas." He says:英文原著 · 《The Complete Writings-3》
Oh, you are an odd boy; you have a wanton eye of your own! ah, you sweet sugar lipped wanton, you will win as many
women's hearts as come in your company.英文原著 · 《The Life of Sir John Oldcastle》
"Yet I you re-de, take good heed When men will think and say: Of young, of old, it shall be told, That ye be gone away Your wanton will for to fulfil, In green wood you to play; And that ye might from your delight No longer make delay. Rather than ye should thus for me Be called an ill wom-an, Yet would I to the green wood go, Alone, a banished man."英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
"Thus farewell, most gallant captain! Farewell, too, my heart's content! Count not Spanish ladies wanton, Though to thee my love was bent: Joy and true prosperity go still with thee!" "The like fall ever to thy share, most fair lad-ie!"英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
"England has been a commercially unscrupulous nation for generations and it is idle to throw the blame for this or that act of a nation on an individual. Such arguments might be kept up indefinitely as regards an act of any country. A responsible nation must bear the praise or odium that attaches to any national action. If England has experienced a change of heart it has occurred since the days of the Boer Republic--as wanton a steal as Belgium, with even less excuse, and attended with sufficient brutality for all practical purposes....英文原著 · 《A Straight Deal》
I'm gonna introduce Maxwell Rose to wanton carnality for his own middle-aged good.美剧 · 《Devious Maids》
I've just come from downstairs, where I learnt that my timetable has been wantonly disregarded.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
I was clearly signed up To use the mainframe in buckman 204, And dr. winkle just wantonly Ripped the sign-up sheet off the wall.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
That's why it's willful and wanton conduct nd subject to high punitive damages.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》