From Frank's deprecatory remarks about the money " people" owed him, she had imagined the sums to be small.

从弗兰克不愿意提起" 人们" 欠他钱态度来看，她直以为这笔钱为数不多。想不到竟是这么大笔啊！

'But we can't return now, ' he said in a deprecatory tone.

“但我们现在不能回去了，”他用贬低语气说。

She looked back at him with one of those faint half deprecatory, half seductive smiles women are so good at.

她回头看他， 女人擅长那半嘲讽半诱弱笑。

The steward stands facing him at the other side of the table, if so deprecatory a stance as his can be called standing.

管家站在桌子​​另边面对他， 如果像他这样贬义姿势也能叫站话。

" Well, it's nothing—much, " he said, with something deprecatory in his tone, as if he felt vague impulses toward both humour and apology.

“好吧，没什么——太多了， ” 他说，语气中些许贬低， 仿佛他隐隐约约地想要幽默和道歉。

He had just got home from a trip to the store at Carmody, and he sheepishly produced a small parcel from his pocket and handed it to Anne, with a deprecatory look at Marilla.

他刚从卡莫迪商店旅行回来，他不好意思地从口袋里掏出个小包裹递给安妮，用鄙视眼光看玛丽拉。

Looking in the direction whence it proceeded, Phoebe saw little Ned Higgins, a good way down the street, stamping, shaking his head violently, making deprecatory gestures with both hands, and shouting to her at mouth-wide screech.

朝它前进方向望去，菲比看到小内德·希金斯，沿街道走得很远，他跺脚，猛烈摇头，用双手做贬低手势，张嘴尖叫对她喊叫。