Harvard Sociologist David Riesman suspects that a majority of Americans have blithely taken to committing supposedly minor derelictions as a matter of course. 哈佛大学的社会学者戴维-里斯曼认为,大多数美国人都轻率地把犯点所谓小过失不当一回事。
I seated myself in a chair, and rocked to and fro, passing harsh judgment on my many derelictions of duty; 我自己坐在一张摇椅上,摇来摇去,心里严厉地斥责我许多次的失职;