She put her arm through Dete's in a confidential sort of way, and said: "I know I can find out the real truth from you, and the meaning of all these tales that are afloat about him. I believe you know the whole story. Now do just tell me what is wrong with the old man, and if he was always shunned as he is now, and was always such a misanthrope."英文原著 · 《Heidi》
It is now some seven years since I have stirred from my home. My city friends all wonder why I don't come to see them, as in former times. They think I am getting sour and unsocial. Some say that I have become a sort of mossy old misanthrope, while all the time the fact is, I am simply standing guard over my mossy old chimney; for it is resolved between me and my chimney, that I and my chimney will never surrender.英文原著 · 《I and My Chimney》
In the real world, where real people live, not politicians, there's something to be said for preparing a client to hear that you called them an "Arrogant, sweaty misanthrope." You put that in an E-mail?美剧 · 《The Good Wife》