A country which tends towards primness by day is often alcohol-fueled and lustful by night.

这个白天一本正经的国家夜晚通常是酒色糜烂的。

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One of them even turned back to look at him, and although he could not see him clearly, the man's eyes shone with a lustful light, like a famished person's at the sight of food.

一个还回头看他，样子不甚分明，但很像久饿的人见了食物一般，眼里闪出一种攫取的光。

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His Scarpia, the lustful and unscrupulous chief of the Roman police, remains among opera's most indelible villains a model for most of his successors in this role.

WSJ: Maria Callas | Puccini's Tosca | The Measure of a Diva | Masterpiece by David Mermelstein