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taciturn
时间: 2024-03-29 16:27:54
GRE
英 [ˈtasɪtəːn]
美 [ˈtæsəˌtərn]

adj. 不苟言笑的;不爱说话的;沉默寡言的

双语例句
  • The taciturn man is the manager of the company.

    这个不爱说话的男人是公司的经理。

  • He was usually taciturn, but occasionally he surprises us.

    他平时沉默寡言,但是偶尔会做出让我们大吃一惊的事。

  • The boy has been taciturn since childhood.

    男孩从小沉默寡言。

  • He's a reserved, taciturn person.

    他是个矜持寡言的人

  • He became a taciturn man, a man not easy to live with. Later, when the older children married and had children of their own, he mellowed a little.

    他变成了一个沉默寡言的人、一个不容易相处的人。后来,等大点的孩子们结了婚,也有了他们自己的孩子,他变得平和了些。

  • The King chafed bitterly over the stupendous indignity thus put upon his royalty, but Hendon was moody and taciturn.

    国王对他的王权受到的巨大侮辱感到非常愤怒,亨顿更是憋住一肚子气,沉默寡言。

  • Well before he died of cancer in 2008, Harold Pinter knew he had earned a reputation for being "enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding".

    早在2008年哈罗德·品特因癌症去世之前,他就知道了自己赢得了“高深莫测、沉默寡言、简洁、多刺、暴躁以及令人生畏”的名声。

  • A taciturn man, he replied to my questions in monosyllables.

    他不爱说话,对我的问题一两个字就打发了。

  • He reverted to his old taciturn ways.

    他又恢复了他的静默寡言。

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词根 taciturn

释义
adj.

(of a person)reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little

(人)不苟言笑的;不爱说话的;沉默寡言的。

词源

"late 18th cent.: from Latin taciturnus, from tacitus (see TACIT)."

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