Jane's efforts to comfort were always maladroit, yet the apparent situation so interested her that she yielded to her inclination to talk. "Say," she began, and Alida was too dejected and weary to correct the child's vernacular, "Mr. Holcroft's got somethin' on his mind."英文原著 · 《He Fell In Love With His Wife》
Are you trying to suggest, in your usual, maladroit fashion, that our jobs are in peril?美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》