Was it perfectionism? Was it, you know this very serious grimness? And you wanted to be more playful?

对完美主义追求？还是严酷无情？还是你想变得更顽皮活泼？

" Don't worry: I'm going to tell you, " she said, her grimness not relaxed.

“别担心：我会告诉你， ” 说，冷酷并没有放松。

Like a junk heap from the Industrial Revolution, the structure exuded inhuman technological grimness and steel-bound barbarity.

就像工业革命垃圾堆一样，这座建筑散发着非术冷酷和钢铁般野蛮。

Some tried to explain the grimness and monotony of their world in terms of an endless cosmic war between good and evil, in which humans were the battleground.

有些试图用善与恶之间无休止宇宙战争来解释他们世界严峻和单调，中类是战场。

He had reached the stage in a young man's life when the grimness of the general human situation first becomes clear; and the realization of this causes ambition to halt awhile.

他已经到达年轻生平第一次意识到生无情严峻阶段；这种意识会使暂时收住自己野心。

She asked the question, meaning if possible to get from him some hint of his intentions; but the grimness of his answer, though it only confirmed her vague suspicions, startled her.

这个题，意思是如果可能话，想从他那里得到一些暗示他意图；但是他冷酷回答，虽然只是证实了模糊怀疑，却让吃了一惊。

And this is why all efforts to escape from the grimness of the present into nostalgia for a still intact past, or into the anticipated oblivion of a better future, are vain.

这也就是为什么想逃避严酷现在、怀旧地躲进对仍然原封不动过去，或者在遗忘中预先奔进一个更好未来一切努力终将徒劳。

The beauty of the island is unveiled as diminishing distance shows you in distincter shape its lovely peaks, but it keeps its secret as you sail by, and, darkly inviolable, seems to fold itself together in a stony, inaccessible grimness.

当距离逐渐缩小，美丽峰峦形状愈加真切时，莫里阿岛美丽便完全呈现出来，但是在你船只从它旁边驶过时，你会发现它仍然重门深锁，把自己闭合为一堆们无法接近阴森可怖巨石，没有能闯入它那幽森奥秘中去。