You see, you think of the Japanese as a very prudish people.

你看 大家都觉得日本是个拘谨的民族。

He sneered more, his words were apt to be more biting, but the manner that accompanied them was always punctilious — too punctilious.

他可能更爱嘲弄人，言语更加犀，但同时态度也更加拘谨，----有时是太拘谨了。

She began to sing, and our three sons joined her, bellowing the song with uninhibited enthusiasm. " Gut, gut, " shouted the Germans. They jumped on their chairs and began singing the first in German.

她启动歌喉，放声歌唱，我们的三个孩子随声和了起来。他们纵情高歌，有一丝半缕的拘谨感。" 好！好！" 德国人高声喝彩。他们跳到椅子上，并用德语唱起这支歌。

America's earnest, decentralised political culture does not always appeal to starchy Britons.

美国式的认真的、分散的政治文化并不总是吸引着拘谨的英国人。

He's so prim and proper at work.

他在工中极为拘谨得体。

“I've never asked, ” said Nearly Headless Nick delicately.

“我从来问过。”差点头的尼克拘谨地说。

Are you someone who's more laid back or more buttoned up and formal?

你是比较随和的人还是比较拘谨正式的人？

When people hear negative comments, they become hesitant and reserved.

当人们听到负面评价时，他们会变得犹豫和拘谨。

The people around him who have heard how bright he is and how well-educated see him being a bit restrained and a bit withheld and start to think, " He's a bit aloof."

他周围的人听说过他有多聪明，受过多么良好的教育，看到他有点拘谨，有点隐忍，就开始想，“他有点冷漠。”

This is the decision of man, and it is the judgment of God, who would not have us so occupied with ourselves, and thus, as it were, always arranging our features in a mirror.

也不那么拘谨的人相处世人上述准则取人，上帝也判断。但上帝不不愿我们用这样多的心思于自己，好象我们要时时对镜整理自己的容颜。

" I've never asked, " said Nearly Headless Nick delicately. When everyone had eaten as much as they could, the remains of the food faded from the plates, leaving them sparkling clean as before. A moment later the puddings appeared .

“我从来问过。”差点头的尼克拘谨地说。等到每人都敞开肚皮填饱肚子后，剩下的食物就一股脑JL地从餐盘里消失了。餐盘叉都变得光洁如初。

I'm not a prude by any manner of means, but they must be so insecure.

无论如何，我不是一个拘谨的人，但他们一定很有安全感。

Whenever he was around other people, Edwin became tense, clammed-up and withdrawn.

每当他和其他人在一起时，埃德温就会变得紧张、拘谨和退缩。

Maybe they hold back a little bit when they're meeting new people.

或许他们在结识新朋友时会稍微拘谨一些。

Some dislike the noise and formality of offices, or suffer from discrimination within them.

有些人不喜欢喧闹而拘谨的办公室环境，或者在办公室受到歧视。

He was saying some last word to her but the eagerness in his manner tightened abruptly into formality as several people approached him to say goodbye.

他还在跟她说最后一句话，可是这时有几个人走过来和他告别，他原先热切的态度陡然收敛，变成了拘谨。

Zarathustra himself, however, stunned and strange, rose from his seat, looked around him, stood there astonished, inquired of his heart, bethought himself, and remained alone. " What did I hear" ? said he at last, slowly, " what happened unto me just now" ?

而查拉图斯特拉自己却昏昏沉沉地、拘谨地从坐的地方站起来，看看周围，惊奇地站在那里，一边在心中自问，一边思考着，兀然独立。 " 可是我听到了什么？" 他最终慢慢地说，" 刚才我遇上了什么事？"

She had a way, too, of demurely popping hither and thither into all sorts of places to gratify her curiosity on any point-a way which, if she had not looked so very genteel and prim, might have been considered impertinent.

她也能一种得体的方式突然出现在各种各样的地方，满足她对任何事情的好奇心——如果她看起来不是那么文雅和拘谨，这种方式可能会被认为是无礼的。

It was my first time to the Lakes – for some reason I'd imagined them to be a bit stuffy and chichi, but I was blown over by how beautiful and effortlessly stylish everything is.

这是我第一次来湖泊地区——出于某种原因，我曾想象过那里可能有些拘谨和奢华，但事实上我被那里的美丽和自然的优雅风格所震撼。

Those squeamish about anything that smacks of geoengineering-in other words, technology intended to change the world's climate in ways that oppose global warming-view artificial upwelling with scepticism.

那些对任何有地质工程色彩的东西——换句话说，就是反对全球变暖的方式来改变世界气候的技术——过于拘谨的人，都对人工上涌持怀疑态度。