自然,他做起事情来瞻前不顾后,有些古怪,在一个专出滑稽人物的民族当中完全称得上是一个地地道道的滑稽人物。

• His manners, it is true, are tinctured with some strange inconsistencies; and he may be justly termed a humorist in a nation of humorists.