Calm and phlegmatic, with a clear eye, Mr. Fogg seemed a perfect type of that English composure which Angelica Kauffmann has so skilfully represented on canvas.

安详，冷静，眼皮一眨不眨，眼珠明亮有神，简直是那种冷静的英国人最标准的典型。这种人在联合王国里是司空见惯的。昂·高夫曼的妙笔，常把他们画成多少带点究气的人物。

And Jesus skilfully asked rhetorical questions to emphasize a point in a powerful but non combative manner.

耶稣技巧地询问了一些修辞问题，以有力却不好斗的方式强调自己的论点。

It's a great example of Indians skilfully finding ways of adapting to the heat – a modern version of 'jaali', you could say.

这是印度人巧妙找到适应高温的方法的一个佳例——你可以说，这是现版“jaali”。

The kitchen fire-irons were in exactly the same position against the back door as when Martha and I had skilfully piled them up, like spillikins, ready to fall with an awful clatter if only a cat had touched the outside panels.

厨房的火钳靠在后门上，位置和我跟玛莎巧妙地把它们堆起来时一模一样，就像叠叠高游戏的积木一样，哪怕有猫碰到外面的木板，这些火钳也会发出响亮的啦声而倒下。

Richard Overy, a British historian of the second world war, has now written a sixth, which skilfully draws together nearly 100 years of scientific and historical scholarship.

理查德·奥弗里是研究第二次世界大战的英国历史家，他现在写了第六本同标题的书，这本书巧妙地汇集了近100年的科和历史术研究。

Mr Dodge skilfully outlines the prime minister's unexpected rise to pre-eminence as he outfoxed and overcame opponents, including the Americans, at every turn.

Dodge 颇为娴熟的规划了总理意外的崛起，在每一个转变中都以智取胜且战胜了对手，包括美国人。

Ms Merriman weaves these strands together skilfully, offering enough context to explain her characters' actions without distracting from their adventures.

梅里曼巧妙地将这些线索编织在一起，提供了足够的背景来解释她笔下人物的行为，并且不会偏离他们的冒险故事主线。

The blanc mange was lumpy, and the strawberries not as ripe as they looked, having been skilfully 'deaconed'.

牛奶冻成了块，而草莓不像看来的那样熟，上了水果商人的当。

Few walked it more skilfully than Mr Rich.

没有人能走得比里奇更轻巧熟练。

The economy of many islands like Tonga depends on tourism, farming or fishing, and on handicrafts. skilfully making traditional objects like jewellery, textiles or pottery by hand.

像汤加这样的许多岛屿的依赖于旅游业、农业或渔业，以及手工艺品——熟练地手工制作首饰、纺织品或陶器等传统物品。

Something that is honed is carefully crafted, skilfully created and developed over a period of time.

如果某物是打磨的，那么它是精心雕琢的，充满了技巧的，并且是在一段时间内完成的。

Many people believe that the books, with what one contemporary critic decried as their " sex, snobbery and sadism" , are skilfully crafted but feel very much of their time—and not in a good way.

许多人认为， 这些书虽然被一位当评论家斥为“性、势利和虐待狂”，但制作精良， 但感觉很符合他们的时——而且不是一种好的方式。

These children move gracefully and handle objects skilfully.

这些孩子动作优雅，拿东西熟练。

Both have skilfully manoeuvred the luxury goods market, keeping supply in check and prices high.

两家都巧妙地操纵了奢侈品市场，控制供应并保持高价。

Its longevity testifies to how skilfully it has balanced conservatism and innovation.

其持久不衰证明了它如何在保守与创新之间巧妙平衡。

But few writers have so skilfully melded wit and pathos, the lyrical and the conversational.

但很少有作家能如此巧妙地将机智与感伤、抒情与对话巧妙地融合在一起。

She was extremely surprised at her brother's arrival; but he invented so probable a pretence for his journey, and conducted his plot so skilfully, that he drew her to make the first proposal herself of visiting Madam de Cleves.

她对她哥哥的到来感到非常惊讶。但是他为他的旅行编造了一个很可能的借口，并且巧妙地实施了他的阴谋，以至于他诱使她第一个提议自己去拜访德莱夫夫人。

The potatoes had to be hurried, not to keep the asparagus waiting, and were not done at the last. The blanc mange was lumpy, and the strawberries not as ripe as they looked, having been skilfully 'deaconed'.

土豆必须快点，以免让芦笋久等，最后没有完成。白奶冻是块状的，草莓不像看起来那么成熟，过巧妙的“去核”。

When Catherine took him at his word and consented to renounce the attempt to mollify her father, he drew back skilfully enough, as I have said, and kept the wedding-day still an open question.

当凯瑟琳相信他的话，同意放弃安抚她父亲的企图时，正如我说过的，他巧妙地退缩了，并让婚礼日期仍然是一个悬而未决的问题。

There is arguably a limit to how interested in intimacy anyone  can be who skilfully picks out the kind of partner who just happens to have  precious little interest in the matter.

有人认为，如果一个人巧妙地选择了对亲密关系几乎没什么兴趣的伴侣，那么这个人对亲密关系的兴趣可能也有其限度。