My first really original story idea—you always know the first one, I think—came near the end of Ike's eight-year reign of benignity.

我的第一个真正原创故事的点子——我猜人总会记得第一个——那是艾克（艾森豪威尔的昵称，他1953—1961年间任美国总统）八年怀柔统治的晚期。

He came towards Leon, and, with that smile of wheedling benignity assumed by ecclesiastics when they question children

他向莱昂走来，面带微笑，就像神甫盘问小孩子时装出来的慈祥一样。

But the visitor quietly closed the shop-door behind him, stood up his umbrella against the counter, and turned a visage of composed benignity, to meet the alarm and anger which his appearance had excited.

但是来客悄悄地关上了他身后的店门，把雨伞撑柜台上，摆出一副镇定和善的表情，以应对他的出所起的惊恐和愤怒。

My Aunt, to others ever harsh proud and contemptuous, remembers that you rescued her from the hands of Murderers, and wears with you alone the appearance of kindness and benignity.

我的姨妈，对其他人总是严厉而傲慢， 轻蔑，记得你把她从凶手手中救了出来， 只有和你一起， 才会带着善良和仁慈的外表。

She had plenty of partners, however, and plenty of chaperons, for all the young men were her most devoted, and all the matrons beamed upon her with maternal benignity.

然而，她有很多伙伴，很多伴侣，因为所有的年轻人都是她最忠诚的，所有的主妇都对她充满慈爱。

A susceptible observer, at any rate, might have regarded it as affording very little evidence of the general benignity of soul whereof it purported to be the outward reflection.

一个敏感的观察者，无论如何，可能认为它提供了很少的证据表明灵魂的普遍仁慈，据称是灵魂的外反映。

Conway dizzied in brain as he sought to answer the question; the room was now a whorl of shadows with that ancient benignity at its center.

康威试图回答这个问题时脑子里一片眩晕；房间变成了阴影的漩涡，其中心是那种古老的仁慈。

" —in these latter words, by the bye, there were symptoms of a change from his sudden harshness into his previous benignity of manner. "

” ——顺便说一， 后面的这些话中， 有迹象表明他突然的严厉转变为他以前的温和举止。

He at first knit his brows; then smiled with more unctuous benignity than ever.

他起初皱起眉头； 然后比以往任何时候都更加虚伪和善地微笑。