As he spoke he unwrapped the gray shawl and extricated a pretty little girl of about five years of age, whose dainty shoes and smart pink frock with its little linen apron, all bespoke a mother's care.

说着他就打开了灰色包袱，从里边抱出了一个丽的小女孩。这个小女孩大约五岁左右，穿着一双精致的小鞋，漂亮的粉红色上衣，麻布围嘴。从这些打扮可以看出，妈妈对她是爱护得无微不至的。

Oh, I get more because I'm dainty.

噢，我得分比较多 因为我很俏丽。

So, day after day, Davy hunted the woods for the prettiest flowers, and the most dainty ferns and mosses.

于是，大卫每天都到森林里去寻找漂亮的花，以及最可口的苔藓。

There's also a catalogue in 1918 that suggests that little girls should all wear blue because it's a delicate and dainty color.

1918 年还有一本型录建议小女孩们应该全穿蓝色，因为蓝色是精致优雅的颜色。

Carefully dabbing the canvas with them, they removed the overpainting's dainty hands and idealized face.

他们小心翼翼地用他们在画布上轻拍，去了重绘精致的手理想化的脸。

And I got some little dainty jewels on.

我还戴了一些精致的珠宝。

Let's not forget our beloved retractable click pens and their dainty, clicky sounds.

让我们不要忘记我们心爱的可伸缩点击笔它们精致的滴。

So we'll serve it as very dainty frog meat rather than on the bone.

所以我们会把它做成非常味的青蛙肉来吃，而不是带着骨头。

Music and dainties will make the passing guest stop (for a time).

乐与饵，过客止。

In other countries snails are thought a very dainty dish.

对于其他国家的居民来说, 蜗牛是一道非常味的菜肴。

She wants to be dainty, and she clearly can't be.

她想显得娇小玲珑，但显然做不到。

" She is very pretty, " he said to himself; " she is very pretty, this doctor's wife. Fine teeth, black eyes, a dainty foot, a figure like a Parisienne's. Where the devil does she come from? Wherever did that fat fellow pick her up" ?

" 她很讨人喜欢！" 他心里想，" 她很讨人喜欢，这个医生的太太！ 牙齿很白，眼睛很黑，脚很迷人，样子好像一个巴黎女人。 她到底是哪里来的？ 那个笨头笨脑的小子又是从哪里搞到她的？"

In the Tao Te Ching, a classic book of wisdom, Lao Tzu writes, " Trifles and dainties attract the passing people, while the Tao goes unnoticed. When looked at, it is not much to see."

在《道德经》这本经典的智慧之书中，老子写道：“乐与饵，过客止。道之出口，淡乎其无味，视之不足见。”

What she piqued herself upon, as arts in which she excelled, was making candle-lighters, or " spills" (as she preferred calling them), of coloured paper, cut so as to resemble feathers, and knitting garters in a variety of dainty stitches.

她引以为傲的技艺，也就是她擅长的技艺，是用彩纸制作点蜡烛的东西，也叫“火引子”（她更喜欢这个名称），把纸剪成羽毛形状，以及用各种精致的针法编织袜带。

" Nay, sir, " I could not avoid answering, " he'll touch nothing, not he: and I suppose he must have his share of the dainties as well as we."

“不会的，先生，”我忍不住搭腔了，“他什么也不会碰的，他不会的。而且我猜想他一定我们一样也有他那份点心。”

She had been raised in the bedroom of Solange Robillard, Ellen O'Hara's mother, a dainty, cold, high-nosed French-woman, who spared neither her children nor her servants their just punishment for any infringement of decorum.

罗毕拉德的卧室里养育大的，那位老太太是个文雅的高鼻子法兰西人，无论对自己的儿女或者仆人只要触犯法规便不惜给以应得的惩罚。

For, all the three years, he had carefully avoided her in consequence of that natural cowardice that characterises the stronger sex. Emma went on, with dainty little nods, more coaxing than an amorous kitten

三年来，由于强者天性中的弱点，他总是小心在意地躲开她；现在，艾玛的头在他怀里蹭来蹭去，千娇百媚，胜过一只动情的母猫。

And that is a really good feeling because I think, especially as women were taught to apologize for our existence, a lot be as dainty and as quiet and as unfailingly polite as possible.

这是一种非常好的感觉，因为我认为，尤其是在女性被教导要为自己的存在道歉，要尽可能地优雅、安静礼貌的时候。

He then went to his library and brought the little box that contained his special gift to his wife, a diamond brooch, not large, but dainty in design.

然后他去书房取来一只小盒子，里面装着他送给妻子的一份特别礼物——一枚钻石胸针。胸针不大，但是设计得很精。

But about 10 years ago, scientists documented a dainty relative of the hammerhead shark, known as a bonnethead shark, consuming copious amounts of sea grass.

但是大约10年前，科学家记录了双髻鲨（又称锤头鲨）的一种体型小巧的近亲吃大量海草的情况。