There's nothing soft or demure about it.

“因为这个声音既不温柔也不庄。”

Everything that was supposed to define womanhood, demure, chaste serenity, is junked for Costanza.

一切都是为定义女性气质而服务，庄、贞洁、素静都揉在Costanza身上。

If you're a testosterone-fueled grumpy Gus, it could render you almost delightfully demure.

你是个高睾酮的暴脾气，它能让你变得几近愉悦庄。

But if you're a testosterone-fueled grumpy Gus, it could render you almost delightfully demure.

是雄性激素过高、性格暴躁的狮子格斯，这种激素也会让其变得娴静庄。

Startup bosses who proudly moved fast and broke things are now falling over themselves to look demure.

那些以行动迅速、摧枯拉朽为傲的初创公司老板们，现在正前赴后继地让自己看起严肃庄重。

In person he is demure and charming.

他本庄而迷。

She looked particularly small and demure this morning.

今天早上她看起特别娇小庄。

Ooh, what is this, I could look very demure in this.

哦，这是什么，我穿这个看起很庄。

Initially cast in stereotypical roles, the demure, docile, damsel in distress.

最初扮演刻板的角色，庄、温顺、遇险的少女。

But there’s one big issue with that explanation – of promiscuous, possessive men and demure women.

但这种解释存在一个大问题——滥交、占有欲强的男庄的女。

" O yes, certainly, " said the girl with a sort of demure alertness which was somewhat amusing.

“哦，是的，当然，” 女孩说，带着一种庄的机敏， 这有点有趣。

Each and all were answered by a smile, a bow, and a demure " Yes" or " No" with the chill on.

所有这一切得到的回应只是微微一笑、点一下头一声拘谨冷淡的“是”或“不”。

This new stage in my life where it's like, just wanna keep things a little bit simple, bit more demure.

在我生的新阶段，我只想让事情变得简单一点， 庄一点。

They can be kind of as large and as crazy as you want or as small and demure and subtle as well.

可以特别大、特别夸张，也可以小巧、庄、细腻，一切随心而定。

All but Erica, who sat at the end of the table in her demure school-supper white dress, listening quietly.

除了穿着庄的学校晚宴白色连衣裙坐在桌子尽头的埃丽卡以外， 所有都在静静地听着。

She must be a woman of complicated character, and there was something dramatic in the contrast of that with her demure appearance.

看她一定是一个性格非常复杂的女，这同她那庄娴静的外表倒构成了极富于戏剧性的对比。

George was a demure, studious boy, and his senses seemed to brighten up in the library, where his brother was so gloomy.

乔治学习严肃认真，一进入知识海洋，便显现出惊天赋；捧起书本的哈里，总是蔫头耷脑，满脸愁容。

He described their " red lips and white skin" and how their demeanour was " quiet, passive and demure, yet sensual and seductive" .

描述了艺伎“拥有红唇，皮肤白皙”，他们的举止何“安静，被动庄，却又感性，富有魅力”。

At this Mrs. Adams abandoned her air of amusement, looked hurt, and glanced at the demure Miss Perry across the table.

亚当斯夫听了这话， 脸上露出了兴高采烈的样子， 看上去很受伤， 隔着桌子瞥了一眼娴静的佩里小姐。

He then becomes a hypocrite, timorous and demure; he counsels " peace of soul, " hate-no-more, leniency, " love" of friend and foe.

然后他变成了一个伪君子， 胆小而庄。 他建议“灵魂的平” 、不再仇恨、宽大、友敌之间的“爱” 。