" An accident happens so easily. Be careful! Your horses perhaps are mettlesome" .
" 小心祸从天上飞来!你的马驯不驯服呀?"
还乡
The superstratum of timidity which often overlies those who are daring and defiant at heart had been passed through, and the mettlesome substance of the woman was reached.
那些外表羞怯的人往往掩盖着内心的勇敢和无畏,此时这层外表已被穿透,这个女人又变得有气魄起来。
飘(原版)
They were all healthy, thoughtless young animals, sleek, graceful, high-spirited, the boys as mettlesome as the horses they rode, mettlesome and dangerous but, withal, sweet-tempered to those who knew how to handle them.