His pals ask him to be a crook, and are sore because he won't be a crook. The police ask him to be a crook, and threaten him because he doesn't want to be a crook. Some situation!"
"Some situation!" repeated Hunt. "What're you going to do?"
"Do?" Larry halted, his face set with defiant determination. "I'm going to keep on doing exactly what I've been doing! And they can all go to hell!"英文原著 · 《Children of the Whirlwind》
"That, sir, is Mr. Crook, who does any little jobs we require in the way of make-up. Our expert on resemblances, if I may put it that way, sir, for we really do very little in the way of disguises. Crook is an observer of what I may call people's points, sir, their facial appearance, their little peculiarities of manner, of speech, of gait. Whenever there is any question of a disguise, Mr. Crook is called in to advise as to the possibilities of success. I believe I am correct in saying, Crook, that you have been engaged on the Major here for some time. Isn't it so?"英文原著 · 《Okewood of the Secret Service》
"Well," commented Cressler, "some one else has begun where you left off, I guess. This Unknown Bull, I mean. All the boys are trying to find out who he is. Crookes, though, was saying to me--Cal Crookes, you know--he was saying he didn't care who he was. Crookes is out of the market, too, I understand--and means to keep out, he says, till the Big Bull gets tired. Wonder who the Big Bull is."英文原著 · 《The Pit》
"What is the nursery-rhyme?" observed Brown absent-mindedly. "There was a crooked man and he went a crooked mile.... That man, I fancy, has gone a very crooked road--by following his nose."英文原著 · 《The Wisdom of Father Brown》
With crooked glances--dost thou teach me crooked courses; on crooked courses learn my feet--crafty fancies!英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
"Isn't it bully?" asked the prize-fighter, smiling on us each in turn, with his black and bloodshot eyes and his bloated lip. "To think that I've only to invent a trap to catch a crook, for a blamed crook to walk right into! You, Mr. Man," and he nodded his great head at me, "you'll recollect me telling you that I'd gotten one when you come in that night with the other sport? Say, pity he's not with you now; he was a good boy, and I liked him a lot; but he wanted to know too much, and I guess he'd got to want. But I'm liable to tell you now, or else bu'st. See that decanter on the table?"英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
"There was a crooked man who had a crooked smile...美剧 · 《Friends》
BGM: Send the Rain by Noah Gundersen ♪ Death is coming, carried on his crooked wings? ♪ ♪ I can't do anything ♪ ♪ Death is coming, carried on his crooked wings? ♪ ♪ I can't do anything ♪ Hey, Mia.美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》
You know he's crooked, and you know he's going down.美剧 · 《Billions》