But their father, though very laconic in his expressions of pleasure, was really glad to see them.

倒是她们的父亲，嘴上虽然没有说什么欢天喜地的话，心里确实非常高兴。

Will closed by wishing her happiness, a laconic formal statement which he qualified in no way.

威尔在便条最后祝她幸福，这是种简单的礼节性祝贺，不带丝毫个人的意见。

The menu is laconic (" Snails and Oakleaf" ), flavours strong and balanced, presentation a flourish above plain.

菜单简洁明了(“蜗牛和橡树叶”)，口味浓郁而均衡，呈种在朴实之上开花的感觉。

He should have known she would take the first train possible after receiving his laconic message that Gerald was dead.

收到他那封简短的信，得知父亲杰拉尔德去世的消息，她肯定会乘最早的班火车赶来的。

This concise mode of expressing oneself is now called " laconic" .

这种简洁的表达方式在被称为“laconic”。

He once received a laconic note from one of his co-authors, Ed Prescott.

他曾经收到过他的合著者之埃德·普雷斯科特 (Ed Prescott) 发来的简明笔记。

This truly Laconic exhortation is generally extended to read as Thoreau gives it.

这种真正简洁的劝告通常被扩展为梭罗给的阅读方式。

The diction of comte Chalvet was laconic, his phrases were flashes of lightning--just, vivid, deep.

Chalvet 伯爵的措辞简明扼要， 他的词句如闪电般闪过——恰到好处、生动而深沉。

America guns down Black bodies and then walks around them, bored, like laconic lions next to half-eaten gazelles, bloody lips ...

美国枪杀人尸体， 然后绕着他们走，无聊，就像被吃掉半的瞪羚旁边的简洁狮子， 血腥的嘴唇. . . . . .

Jude did not pause to remember that, in the laconic words of the historian, " insulted Nature sometimes vindicated her rights" in such circumstances.

裘德没有停下来记住，用历史学家的简洁的话来说，在这种情况下，“有时侮辱自然会维护她的权利”。

His dispatches were sometimes laconic to the point of curtness, and his calm in emergencies, though admired, was often suspected of being too sincere.

他的言辞有时简洁到生硬的地步，他在紧急情况下的冷静虽然令人钦佩，但经常被怀疑过于真诚。

" I have not sat down before Quebec, but an earthen work, that is defended by twenty-three hundred gallant men, " was the laconic reply.

“我没有在魁北克之前坐下来，而是个由 2300 名英勇的人捍卫的泥土工程，”是简洁的回答。

In my generation, and the generations before me, the people had gone—so my father would sit by the fire and read the paper, and he was very laconic.

到了我这代，那么在我之前的几代人，人们已经离开了——所以我父亲会坐在火炉旁读报纸，他说话非常简洁。

He was in a taciturn and laconic mood, and the others, seeing that nothing was to be got out of him, appealed to Domenichino to explain.

他的语气沉默寡言，其他人见他什么也问不来，就求多梅尼奇诺解释下。

So it came about that the hero of Buena Vista, celebrated for his laconic order, " Give 'em a little more grape, Captain Bragg, " became President of the United States.

因此，布埃纳维斯塔的英雄以其简洁的命令“给他们多点葡萄，布拉格船长”而闻名，成为了美国总统。

ONE day in the first week of January Martini, who had sent round the forms of invitation to the monthly group-meeting of the literary committee, received from the Gadfly a laconic, pencil-scrawled " Very sorry: can't come" .

月第周的天，马蒂尼已将参加文学委员会月度小组会议的邀请函寄了去，他收到了牛虻寄来的封简洁的铅笔潦草的“非常抱歉：不能来”。