"To please me!" cried her father, with a start of surprise. "To please /me/, child? when you will not hear the voice that upbraids you so tenderly very much longer! But I have always heard children impute personal motives for the sacrifices that their parents make for them. Marry Victor, my Julie! Some day you will bitterly deplore his ineptitude, his thriftless ways, his selfishness, his lack of delicacy, his inability to understand love, and countless troubles arising through him. Then, remember, that here under these trees your old father's prophetic voice sounded in your ears in vain."英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
"Do nothing of the kind!" cried Goriot. de Restaud, you could not make your wife happy; she has looked for happiness and found it elsewhere, and you make her suffer for your own ineptitude? He will have to reckon with me. Make yourself easy, Nasie. he cares about his heir! Good, very good. I will get hold of the boy; isn't he my grandson? What the blazes!英文原著 · 《Father Goriot》
waste?" After having delivered us from all these wearisome ineptitudes英文原著 · 《Peace》
___(a) Elementary Particles
�� 219 This existing self of matter is light. �� 220 As the abstract self of matter, light is absolutely lightweight, and as matter, infinite. �� 221 The ineptitude, tastelessness, even dishonesty of Newton's observations and
experimentations. �� 222 Light is the active identity which posits everything as identical. �� 223 The lunar and the cometary body. �� 224 The earth or the planet.英文原著 · 《Philosophy of Nature》
For, after all, I had only to act my part; unless Raffles failed where he never did fail, unless Raffles the neat and noiseless was for once clumsy and inept, all I had to do was indeed to "smile and smile and be a villain." I practiced that smile half the afternoon. I rehearsed putative parts in hypothetical conversations. I got up stories. I dipped in a book on Queensland at the club. And at last it was 7.45, and I was making my bow to a somewhat elderly man with a small bald head and a retreating brow.英文原著 · 《The Amateur Cracksman》
never seen a man so gross, so inept, so stupid, so forgetful.英文原著 · 《The Clouds》