Recently I read this sentence in a forthcoming novel I prefer not to name: “He sat stolidly beside the corpse, waiting for the medical examiner as patiently as a man waiting for a turkey sandwich.”

最近我在一本即将出版的小说里读到这么一句，小说的名字恕我不方便透露：“他木然坐在尸体旁边等待验尸官到来，耐心得仿佛在等一个火鸡三明治。”

The ambulance men hurrying here and there among the prostrate forms frequently stepped on wounded men, so thickly packed were the rows, and those trodden upon stared stolidly up, waiting their turn.

救护车的医院人员在躺着的伤员中间急急来去，常常踩在排列得太紧密的伤员身上，那些被踩着的人也只得迟翻着眼睛望望，等着有人来搬运他们。

After a brief recap of the murders and the political scandal they caused, the piece veered back into Macarthur's stolidly sensible view of the lockdown.

在简短回顾了谋杀引发的政治丑闻后，文章又转向麦卡瑟对封锁的冷静理性观点。

For every one that fell, another moved stolidly into its place.

每倒下一个，就有一个坚定补上它的位置。

And his attention was constantly wandering: there were fruit trees trained on the walls of the vicarage, and a long twig beat now and then against the windowpane; sheep grazed stolidly in the field beyond the garden.

他的注意力一直在游移：牧师住宅的墙上长满了果树， 一根长长的树枝不时敲打着窗玻璃； 羊在花园外的田野里不动声色吃草。

Biff waited stolidly, his elbow resting on the counter and his thumb mashing the tip of his long nose.

Biff 不动声色等待着， 他的手肘搁在柜台上， 拇指捏着他长长的鼻尖。

" Lavinia has no trials, " said Ermengarde, stolidly, " and she is horrid enough" .

“拉维尼亚一点麻烦都没有，”厄门加德木然说，“而且她已经够讨厌了。”

He stolidly put his helmet back on, but his eyes went past the red-headed man to the stair that wound down inside the ship from some compartment above.

他平静重新戴好头盔，目光却越过那位红发男子，投向了从上方某个舱室蜿蜒而下、位于飞船内部的楼梯。