"No, no," said he, inadvertently--"another time will do for that. I am content with your forgiveness. Now I can wait."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
As I had not been able to say my prayers in the courtyard of the inn, but had nevertheless been assured once that on the very first day when I omitted to perform that ceremony some misfortune would overtake me, I now hastened to rectify the omission. Taking off my cap, and stooping down in a corner of the britchka, I duly recited my orisons, and unobtrusively signed the sign of the cross beneath my coat. Yet all the while a thousand different objects were distracting my attention, and more than once I inadvertently repeated a prayer twice over.英文原著 · 《Boyhood》
"I come from the house where he is employed. He has inadvertently left in his room a parcel belonging to us, and I should be glad if you would allow me to go up to his room and take it."英文原著 · 《Cast Upon the Breakers》
"The explanation is simple. It belongs to the store. Perhaps Mr. Ropes left it here inadvertently."英文原著 · 《Cast Upon the Breakers》
Sandy was quite clearly angry, as well he might be, after the things he'd heard, but he was entirely cold and collected. Gordon was hot, and bursting with imaginary wrongs. I was aghast at this perfectly foolish and unnecessary muddle that had suddenly arisen out of nothing. Sandy apologized to me with unimpeachable politeness for inadvertently overhearing, and then turned to Gordon and stiffly invited him to get into his car and ride to the station.英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
Sometimes a black figure would pass across this gigantic furnace-mouth, stooping and rising, as though feeding the fire. One might have imagined that a door in Vulcan's Smithy had been left inadvertently open, and that the old hero was forging arms for a demigod. Blunt turned pale. "It's no mortal," he whispered. "Let's go back."
"And what will Madam say?" returned dare-devil Will Staples who would have plunged into Mount Erebus had he been paid for it. Thus appealed to in the name of his ruling passion, Blunt turned his head, and the boat sped onward.英文原著 · 《For the Term of His Natural Life》
Oh, look at this. I think I've inadvertently set up my 14-year-old with a college boy.美剧 · 《Modern Family》