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demure adj.1.嫻靜的,拘謹的,莊重的。2.假裝正經的。短語...

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Hilda arrived in good time on thursday morning , in a nimble two - seater car , with her suit - case strapped firmly behind . she looked as demure and maidenly as ever , but she had the same will of her own . she had the very hell of a will of her own , as her husband had found out 星期四的早晨,希爾達按照預定的時間來到,駛著她的兩座輕便汽車,她的衣箱用皮帶牢牢地縛在后邊,和平家一樣,她的樣子是端莊的,處女的但是也和平至少一樣,她有著一種倔強的氣概,她有一種魔鬼似的倔強的自我意志,這是她的丈夫發覺的。

I stood listening to that musical vibration from my lofty slope , to those flashes of separate cries with a kind of demure murmur for background , and then i knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not lolita ' s absence from my side , but the absence of her voice from that concord 我站在這高高的斜坡頂上,傾聽那微微的音樂般的震顫,傾聽那輕輕的嗡嗡聲中間或迸出的歡叫聲,然后我明白了,那刺痛心肺、令人絕望的東西并不是洛麗塔不在我的身邊,而是她的聲音不在那和聲里了。

He would detest and despise her , for he had come almost to hate the shoving forward of the working classes . a man of her own class he would not mind , for connie was gifted from nature with this appearance of demure , submissive maidenliness , and perhaps it was part of her nature 他定要憎惡她,輕鄙她,因為他差不多是疾恨勞工階級的向前邁進的,假如她的情人是和她同樣階級的人,那么他不會介意的,因為康妮吳然地有著端莊的馴服的處女的風采,也許她生成是為了戀愛的。

The trinity fair , at southwold , suffolk , from being an occasion of buying and selling in the high street is now an extensive pleasure and amusement fair held on the south green , and some of the more demure of the inhabitants have several times unsuccessfully endeavoured to get it abolished 薩福克郡南沃爾德的三一集市節原是大街上的買賣日,現已成為南綠地上舉行的龐大的娛樂集市節,有些比較嚴肅的居民已經多次努力要將它廢除,但沒成功。

Towards connie the squire was always rather gallant ; he thought her an attractive demure maiden and rather wasted on clifford , and it was a thousand pities she stood no chance of bringing forth an heir to wragby 他覺得她是純潔如處女的端正的動人的人,她對于克利福未免勞而無功了,并且她的命運不能給勒格貝生個繼承人,是千可惜萬可惜的,不過他自己也沒有繼承人。

The classic chinese beauty also fought hard to convince the director of eat drink man woman ( who was unwilling to cast her because of her demure , genteel looks ) that she could break out of the damsel - in - distress mould 這位古典中國美人也曾努力奮斗,為了讓《飲食男女》的導演他因為吳倩蓮端莊、有教養的外貌而不愿由她來主演信服她可以脫離出憂郁少女的典型。

Born in a scholastically biased home , mr zhang received the demure archaic training from his grandfather and father . when he was young , he majored in english at the imperial university 張心激出生在一個尊崇儒學的書香世家,祖父和父親都是前清進士,自幼就受過嚴格的古學訓練。

In the second act , the crowd , wearied by a dull conversation , roved with its eyes about the stage and sighted her . there she was , gray - suited , sweet - faced , demure , but scowling 在第二幕里,觀眾們因為聽厭了一段枯燥無味的對白,目光開始在舞臺上掃來掃去,于是就看見了她。

He found her too familiar , she found him stupidly insentient , tough and indiarubbery where other people were concerned . she went downstairs calmly , with her old demure bearing , at dinner - time 她呢,她覺得她一提到他人的事的時候,他是呆木無感的,堅韌得和橡膠似的。

Then , the young princess wowed america with her demure smiles , fashion sense and well - remembered turn around the white house dance floor with john travolta 當時,年輕的黛安娜王妃以其端莊的笑容,時尚感以及在白宮和約翰?特拉沃爾塔的共舞轟動了整個美國。

The victim ' s wrists , crossed and suspended together over her head , were so slight , her fingers so graceful , her long legs so demure 受害者的手腕,被交叉地捆束在一起,放在腦袋上,顯得如此輕柔,她的手指,顯得如此優雅,她的長腳,顯得如此靜美。

The victim ' s wrists , crossed and suspended together over her head , were so slight , her fingers so graceful , her long legs so demure 受害人的手腕交叉被吊在頭頂,綁得很緊,她的手指是那么優雅,修長的腿是那么端莊。

“ oh yes , certainly , “ said the girl with a sort of demure alertness which was somewhat amusing “呵,好,當然, ”那女孩說,她表現的那種認真的,靈敏的樣子,看來有點好笑。

The painting portrays a beautiful lady , gentle and demure , brimming with joy and confidence in life 畫面描繪了一位嫻靜端莊的美麗少女,她充滿著對生活的喜悅和信心。

It is very obvious that silver hawk is a very extroverted and exciting , the very opposite of the demure and beautiful lulu 楊紫瓊化身飛鷹,與神探任賢一較高下. .

So , like a demure arcadian field - marshal , hilda arranged the material part of the journey 這樣,希爾達儼然大元帥似的,嚴肅地把旅丟失重要事件計劃好了。

[ imitating matchannouncer ] colt returns with a somewhat demure crosscourt forehand 柯爾特帶著他那標準的正手攻擊又回來了

Imitating matchannouncer colt returns with a somewhat demure crosscourt forehand 柯爾特帶著他那標準的正手攻擊又回來了

She gave him a demure smile 她對他嫻靜地笑了笑。