sire

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Conscience gives me a joyous mind, and learns, sire, that the infallible recipe for happiness—a good conscience—you are in want of.
陛下您要懂得，擁有快樂的秘訣是要擁有善良的心靈——而您卻沒有。
“Sire, ” said Merlin, “I know that you’re in love with Igraine; will you swear, as an anointed king, to give into my care the child you that she bears you, if I make her yours?”
“陛下，”梅林說道，“我知道你現(xiàn)在愛上了伊格蓮。如果我能使她為你所有，你能否以國王的名義宣誓，將她為你所生的孩子托付于我？”
The marshal, levelling his glass, answered, "Four or five thousand men, Sire; evidently Grouchy."
那位大元帥對準(zhǔn)他的望遠(yuǎn)鏡答道：“四五千人，陛下。

Afterwards he strolls out to the paddock to congratulate the Clydesdale sire, as fireworks explode overhead.
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When a male animal, especially a horse, sires a young animal, he makes a female pregnant so that she gives birth to it.