"Be calm, sir," advised Hope - "be calm."
"Calm! calm!" bellowed Braddock, struggling to a standing position. "Oh, confound you, sir, how can I be calm when I find what I have lost? You have a mean, groveling soul, Hope, not the soaring spirit of a collector."
"There is no need to be rude to Archie, father," corrected Lucy sharply. "Rude! I am never rude. But this mummy." Braddock peered closely at it and rapped the wood to assure himself it was no phantom. it is my mummy, the mummy of Inca Caxas.英文原著 · 《The Green Mummy》
Sara's cheeks felt warm. She went back to her seat and opened the book. She looked at the first page with a grave face. She knew it would be rude to smile, and she was very determined not to be rude. But it was very odd to find herself expected to study a page which told her that "le pere" meant "the father," and "la mere" meant "the mother."英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
It wouldn't have happened if you had been as wise as you thought you were. * * I suppose he thinks I have been very rude to him. Well, some times I wasn't nearly so rude as I felt like being. Feeling as I did, I could hardly be very amiable. * * Of course this drive this afternoon was all your affair and Marjory's. But, of course, I shall be nice to him."英文原著 · 《Active Service》
"Louisa likes the manners of the men for the same reason; she says that in society they are always respectful and obliging, whatever other agreeable or disagreeable qualities they may have. She remarked, that she had never met with a rude Frenchman in society; but she had, repeatedly, met with rude Englishmen, in very good company."英文原著 · 《Elinor Wyllys-1》
"Look here, sir, I was rude to you just now--devilish rude. Most ungentlemanly of me. I must apologize." North bowed, without speaking, and tried to pass. "You must excuse my violence," Frere went on. "I'm bad-tempered, and I didn't like my wife interfering. Women, don't you know, don't see these things-- don't understand these scoundrels." North again bowed. "Why, d--n it, how savage you look! Quite ghastly, bigod!英文原著 · 《For the Term of His Natural Life》
To what of reality was in him; to that and nothing more. The rest was all smoke and waste. _La carriere ouverte aux talens_: that great true Message, which has yet to articulate and fulfil itself everywhere, he left in a most inarticulate state. He was a great _ebauche_, a rude-draught never completed; as indeed what great man is other? Left in _too_ rude a state, alas!英文原著 · 《Heroes and Hero Worship》
Say "I'm a rude, arrogant bastard" "who needs to treat women with courtesy and respect!" I'm a rude, arrogant... How did the rest of it go?美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》