In ordinary living, there can be some tolerance of unpunctuality.

在日常生活中人们可以容忍一定程度的不准时。

But people are often reproached for unpunctuality when their only fault is cutting things fine.

但有些人不准时常常因为掐钟点所致，他们常常受到责备。

She grumbled at his unpunctuality, as he entered.

当他进来时，她抱怨他不守时。

Mr. Thornton left the house without coming into the dining-room again. He was rather late, and walked rapidly out to Crampton. He was anxious not to slight his new friend by any disrespectful unpunctuality.

桑顿先生没有再进餐厅就离开了房子。他来晚了，很快就走到克兰普顿。他急切地不想以任何无礼的不守时行为来蔑视他的新朋友。

At Helstone unpunctuality at meal-times was a great fault in her mother's eyes; but now this, as well as many other little irregularities, seemed to have lost their power of irritation, and Margaret almost longed for the old complainings.

不准时吃饭在她母亲的眼里是个大错； 但是现在这件事， 连同许多其他的小不正常行为， 似乎已经失去了刺激的力量， 玛格丽特几乎渴望过去的抱怨。