Not that such bounty is attainable these days anyway, given the placid state of the market.

在如今这样冷淡的市场环境下，要想获得如此可观的收益是很困难的。

The ship's beacon lit up that whole placid surface, which experienced neither ripples nor undulations.

探照灯照在湖面上，十分平静，一点皱痕、一点波纹都没有。

A group of sailors captured the placid birds.

一群水手捕获了这对温顺的鸟。

Although deadly, Gaboon vipers have a reputation for being slow-moving and placid creatures.

虽然很致命，但加彭咝蝰可是出了名的慢吞吞且温和的生物。

Yet there is another species that looks rather less placid.

然而，还有一种动物看起来不那么平静。

On each calm placid turn the fish made he was gaining line and he was sure that in two turns more he would have a chance to get the harpoon in.

鱼每回沉着、平静地拐回来时，总收回一点钓索，所信再兜上两个圈子，就能有机会把鱼叉扎进去了。

The baby looks so placid and content after she has been fed.

宝宝吃完东西后看起来很平静、很满足。

His placid face and regular breathing showed that he was fast asleep.

从那安详的面容和均匀的呼吸可看出，睡得很熟。

" It is a kind of climatic fossil, glaciers like the Marmolada are considered 'placid.'"

“这是一种气候化石，人们马尔莫拉达这样的冰川是‘平静的’。”

That had been a placid pastime compared to his digging now.

和现在的挖坑相比，那次简直可算是轻松的消遣。

Virtually unchecked by the police, they have cut off access to buildings that house the country's Parliament, Supreme Court and even the prime minister's office, their rumbling semis adding a brooding presence to the ordinarily placid city.

们几乎不受警方的约束，切断了通往该国议会、最高法院甚至总理办公室大楼的道路，们隆隆作响的牵引式挂车这个平时安静的城市增添了一缕阴郁。

However, Mrs Jamieson was kindly indulgent to Miss Barker's want of knowledge of the customs of high life; and, to spare her feelings, ate three large pieces of seed-cake, with a placid, ruminating expression of countenance, not unlike a cow's.

不过，贾米森太太还是宽恕了巴克小姐对上流社会生活习俗的不了解；了不让她的感情受到影响，她带着平静、沉思的表情吃了三大块种子蛋糕，这表情和奶牛没什么两样。

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who I used to look across the room at and used to look rather placid to me across the room, is now sitting just over my shoulder above me.

而现在的法官桑德拉·戴·奥康纳，前我扫视整个法院，也不会特别留意她，但她现在的座位比我的肩膀要高。

For that strange spectacle observable in all sperm whales dying—the turning sunwards of the head, and so expiring—that strange spectacle, beheld of such a placid evening, somehow to Ahab conveyed a wondrousness unknown before.

因在所有垂死的抹香鲸身上都能观察到那种奇异现象——它们把头转向太阳的方向，然后慢慢地咽气——在如此宁静的黄昏，目睹那种奇异的现象，不知怎的，给亚哈带来了一种前所未有的惊异之感。

The world's largest carp, these powerful fish cruise the rivers with the seasons, migrating between spawning grounds in mountain torrents and these more placid lowland waters.

作世界上最大的鲤鱼，这些大型鱼类随着季节的变化在河流中游弋，在山区激流的产卵地和这些更平静的低地水域之间迁徙。

But if the market expects big swings in prices, traders will seek more insurance against such swings than they would if they expected conditions to be placid.

但如果市场预计价格会大幅波动，那么交易员会比预计市场状况平静时寻求更多的保险措施来抵御这种波动。

" I suspect that is a wise man, " remarked Mr. March, with placid satisfaction, from the hearthrug, after the last guest had gone.

“我看那是个聪明人，”最后一位客人离去之后，马奇先生站在炉前地毯上，带着平静的满足评论说。

They may look placid, but elk weigh over 300 kilos, can be three meters tall and their antlers are lethal.

麋鹿看起来很温顺，但它们重达三百多公斤，高达三米，再加上有致命危险的鹿角。

How did I know what were the thoughts and emotions behind that placid brow and those cool gray eyes?

在她那平静的前额和冷冷的灰色的眼睛后面隐匿着什么思想和感情，我怎能知道呢？

Until the thunders of the siege began, he had never known anything but a happy, placid, quiet life.

在围城的炮声打响前，一直过的是愉快平稳而宁静的生活。