尽管滥用数学术语的情况如此普遍，但有一件事最为离奇——当真的需要讨论数字时，经理们全都支支吾吾起来，正确的数字术语一个都不见了。
The strangest thing about all this misuse of mathematics is that when there is an actual need to discuss figures, managers go all coy, and proper numerical terms are nowhere to be seen.
当他们压力过大时，你是可以辨别出来的，因为他们会支支吾吾、犹豫不决。
You can tell when they're stressed out, they'll equivocate and vacillate.
“什么”，我支吾地答道，“您在思考什么？但是我们，人，不是您最宠爱的孩子吗？”
'what,' I faltered in reply, 'what is it thou art thinking upon? But are not we, men, thy favourite children?'
她礼貌地支吾了一会儿。在经过很多鼓励之后，她表示，不太喜欢我凌乱地将食物放入冰箱的方式。
She politely hummed and hawed and, after a lot of prompting, said she didn't like the haphazard way I arranged the food in the fridge.
如果我当年去了达特茅斯，我可能依然不知道达特茅斯校歌的第二段。面对现实吧，你们也都不会那一段歌词。你们刚才全都支吾过去的。
If I had gone to Dartmouth, I still wouldn't know the second verse to "Dear Old Dartmouth." Face it, none of you do. You all mumble that part.
我正要支支吾吾地说她搞错了的时候，她从我身边走过然后伸手去拥抱了站在我后面的老太太。
In the very act of my lisping out, she passed me by and held out her hands to hug an old lady who was standing behind me.
我从他们的神态及对我的探问的支吾回答中懂得，他们对我这个美国人有所怀疑。
I began to understand from their looks and vague answers to my tentative questions that they were suspicious of me, an American.
你怎么和我说话支支吾吾的？
你怎么和我说话支支吾吾的？
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