An hour late for dinner, he could not sit down but circled the long dining room table with a Scotch highball in his hand,calling down terrible oaths on his employes.

• 晚饭已经迟了一个钟头，然而他还是不肯坐下吃饭，却拿着已被冰块威士忌苏打，兀自绕长长的餐桌打转，大声谩骂他的下属人员。