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。
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" .
一月第一周的一天,马蒂尼已将参加文学委员会月度小组会议的邀请函寄了出去,他收到了牛虻寄来的一封洁的铅笔潦草的“非常抱歉:不能来”。