to have never been born, or sprung from noble sires, the heir to mansions richly stored; for if aught untoward e'er befall, there is no lack of champions for sons of noble parents, and there is honour and glory for them when they are proclaimed scions of illustrious lines; time detracts not from the legacy these good men leave, but the light of their goodness still burns on when they are dead.英文原著 · 《Andromache》
"But won't you let us talk to her, Nils?" one of the lumbermen proposed. "It is a tangled skein, and I don't pretend to say that I can straighten it out. But two men have been killed and one crippled since the little chap was taken away. And in the three years he was with us no untoward thing happened. Now that speaks for itself, Nils, doesn't it?"英文原著 · 《Boyhood in Norway》
They were approaching at that moment, Francis Levison and Lady Isabel. He was expressing his regret at the untoward accident of the cross for the tenth time that night. "I feel that it can never be atoned for," whispered he; "that the heartfelt homage of my whole life would not be sufficient compensation."英文原著 · 《East Lynne》
Mumpson's confidence in herself and her schemes was terribly shaken. "I must act very discreetly. I must be alone that I may think over these untoward events. Holcroft has been so warped by the past female influences of his life that there's no counting on his action. He taxes me sorely," she explained, and then ascended the stairs.英文原著 · 《He Fell In Love With His Wife》
Both Columns got united at Tabor; and paused for a day or two, to rest, and gather up their draggled skirts there. The Expedition does not improve in promise, as we advance in it; the march one of the most untowardly; and Posadowsky comes up with only half of his provision-carts,--half of his cattle having fallen down of bad weather, hill-roads and starvation; what could he do? That is an ominous circumstance, not the less.英文原著 · 《History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 15》
The Ring and the Book, v. "see in such A star shall climb apace and culminate," III. The Other Half Rome, v. "Guido, by his folly, forced from them The untoward avowal of the trick o' the birth, Would otherwise be safe and secret now." IV. Tertium Quid, v. "so I Lay, and let come the proper throe would thrill Into the ecstasy and outthrob pain." VI. Giuseppe Caponsacchi, v. "blind?英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
Sir, I promise you there's nothing untoward between me and Sophie.美剧 · 《Modern Family》