Queer business, life--queer, queer business!--to go through it never knowing what you would do next. to be like Keith, steady, buttoned-up in success; a brass pot, a pillar of society! Once, as a boy, he had been within an ace of killing Keith, for sneering at him. Once in Southern Italy he had been near killing a driver who was flogging his horse. And now, that darkfaced, swinish bully who had ruined the girl he had grown to love--he had done it! Killed him! Killed a man!英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
The strangest people. No, Maggie was an orphan. She had an uncle, Grace believed, and two aunts who belonged to a strange sect. No, sect. Very queer altogether. Maxse went home greatly impressed. "The girl's undoubtedly queer," she told her husband. "The parson's got a queer sort of wife," Colonel Maxse told his friends in the Skeaton Conservative Club.英文原著 · 《The Captives》
Well, it had been the other way. Oh, she was queer, queer, queer. He stopped, his large boots in a warm puddle. He felt the warm sun hot through the damp mist. He wanted to take her into his arms, to hug her, above all to feel her response. To feel her response, that was what, for years now, he had been wanting, and never once had she responded. Never once. She let him do as he pleased, but she was passive.英文原著 · 《The Captives》
"Nobody ever dared to do anything you didn't like--because you were going to die and things like that. You were such a poor thing."
"But," announced Colin stubbornly, "I am not going to be a poor thing. I won't let people think I'm one. I stood on my feet this afternoon."
"It is always having your own way that has made you so queer," Mary went on, thinking aloud. Colin turned his head, frowning. "Am I queer?" he demanded. "Yes," answered Mary, "very. But you needn't be cross," she added impartially, "because so am I queer--and so is Ben Weatherstaff.英文原著 · 《The Secret Garden》
But I am not as queer as I was before I began to like people and before I found the garden."
"I don't want to be queer," said Colin. "I am not going to be," and he frowned again with determination. He was a very proud boy. He lay thinking for a while and then Mary saw his beautiful smile begin and gradually change his whole face. "I shall stop being queer," he said, "if I go every day to the garden. There is Magic in there--good Magic, you know, Mary. I am sure there is." "So am I," said Mary. "Even if it isn't real Magic," Colin said, "we can pretend it is.英文原著 · 《The Secret Garden》
And in a little while I shall be altogether in love with her again. "Queer what a brute I've always been to Martin." "Queer that Martin can come in a dream to me and take the upper hand with me. "Queer that NOW--I love Martin." He thought still more profoundly. "By the time the Committee meets again I shall have been tremendously refreshed." He repeated:--"Put things on the Higher Plane and keep them there. Then go back to Martin. And so to the work. That's it. ." Nothing so pacifies the mind as a clear-cut purpose.英文原著 · 《The Secret Places of the Heart》
It was kinda like the end of your new PJs, but not the queerest thing I've ever seen.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》