" I suppose they have a baby by now, " she said in an offhanded tone.

“我想们现在已经有了孩子，”她漫不经心地说。

He means it in a nonthreatening, offhanded way, but habit wins and it comes out accusatory.

思是一种不带威胁、随方，但习惯胜出，结果是指责。

Barack, meanwhile, had listened to Toot, his white grandmother, make offhanded ethnic generalizations and even confess to her Black grandson that she sometimes felt afraid when running into a Black man on the street.

与此，拉克听了白人祖母图特（Toot）不经地进行种族概括，甚至向她黑人孙子承认，她有会在街上遇到黑人感到害怕。