Taciturn

(adj.) habitually reserved and uncommunicative .

整理:内莉

• At any rate he sickened, and after opposing to the malady a taciturn resistance for a day or two, was obliged to keep his chamber. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He was a taciturn, serious man the rest of the day. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• All that day and the next and the next Holmes was in a mood which his friends would call taciturn, and others morose. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Which was so long a time for him to remain taciturn, that the fact may be considered wholly unprecedented. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• There she sat, staid and taciturn-looking, as usual, in her brown stuff gown, her check apron, white handkerchief, and cap. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• On all, he was most impenetrably taciturn. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• She is no angel, but a fair, regular-featured, taciturn-looking woman--rather too white and lifeless for my taste. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• From a taciturn man I believe she would transform me into a talker. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It is when he is on a scent and is not quite absolutely sure yet that it is the right one that he is most taciturn. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• He appeared a taciturn, and perhaps a proud personage; but he was very kind to me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• That there Roger Cly, master, said Mr. Cruncher, with a taciturn and iron-bound visage. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• But you know what Mr Merdle is; you know how taciturn and reserved he is. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I am only taciturn, phlegmatic, and joyless. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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