I can't tell you how often I've heard quiet people apologizing or making excuses for their own shyness.

我听过太多文人因自己害羞，而向别人道歉或者找借口。

" Isn't there some nice girl who'd read and amuse you? Girls are quiet and like to play nurse."

“没有优雅姑娘们来念给听和陪消愁解闷吗？姑娘们是文，欢装作护士。”

He was a slender, weedy boy, small for his eight years, quiet almost to shyness, never speaking unless spoken to.

他是个瘦小而孱弱孩子，虽然八岁了，但个子很矮，文得到了羞怯地步，除非别人跟他说话，否则是从来不开口。

A quiet, intelligent-looking man, rather shabbily dressed.

一个文、英俊男人， 衣着寒酸。

He thought he would meet a quiet, shy girl.

他以为他会遇到一个文害羞女孩。

A quiet, spare man, he has been at the Natural History Museum for twenty-seven years and curator of the department since 1990.

他是个文而话语不多入，在自然史博物馆已经干了27年，从l990年以来一直担任这个部门主任。”

He still liked her tremendously and respected her for her cool good breeding, her book learning and all the sterling qualities she possessed.

他仍然十分爱她，对她那种文贤淑仪态，她学识和她所肯种种高尚品质，他都十分尊敬。

The quiet Mr Brooke managed to persuade his friends that his plans were good and sensible, then he proudly took Meg in to supper.

文布鲁克先生成功地说服了他朋友，他计划是很好，有理智，然后他骄傲地把麦格带进来吃晚饭。

She appeared in English Vinglish, in which she played a quiet housewife who decides to learn English to fit in more with her family.

出演了电影《印式英语》。她在该影片中饰演一位为更加适应庭而决定学习英语文庭主妇。

" You said the other day that you'd be perfectly happy if you could only go to Annie Moffat's, " observed Beth in her quiet way.

“那天说过，只要能去安妮·莫法，就心满意足了，”贝思以她通常那种文声气说。

The paddock, once full of frolicking colts and placid brood mares, was empty now except for one mule, the mule Mr. Tarleton had ridden home from the surrender.

围场里以前有许多嬉戏奔跑马驹和文母马，可如今空荡荡，只有塔尔顿先生在停战后骑回来那匹骡子了。

She thought of Melanie and saw suddenly her quiet brown eyes with their far-off look, her placid little hands in their black lace mitts, her gentle silences.

" 思嘉想起了媚兰，突然看到她那双宁仿佛正在出神褐色眼睛，她那双戴着黑色花边长手套温和小手和那种高雅文神态。

A quiet unassuming man, he would be sure to act towards her as before those love passages with his son, which might have given a more pretentious mechanic airs.

一个文不张扬男人， 对她肯定会像之前和儿子谈情说爱时候那样， 多了几分矫揉造作机械气息。

Melanie, bonneted and shawled, sedate in newly acquired matronly dignity, hung on his arm and the entire personnel of Tara, black and white, turned out to see Ashley off to the war.

媚兰戴着帽子，围着围巾，挽着他肩膀，俨然一副新少奶奶端庄文模样。塔拉农场所有人，无论白人黑人，全都来为艾希礼送行。

But for all the modesty of her spreading skirts, the demureness of hair netted smoothly into a chignon and the quietness of small white hands folded in her lap, her true self was poorly concealed.

不过，无论她散开长裙显得多么老实，发髻梳在后面显得多么端庄，那双交叠在膝头上小手显得多么文，她本来面目终归是藏不住。

Instead of a quiet, middle-aged clergyman, a young lady came forward with frank dignity, — a young lady of a different type to most of those he was in the habit of seeing.

走上前来不是一位文中年牧师，而是一位坦率而端庄年轻女士——一位与他经常见到大多数人不同类型年轻女士。

At the quiet girl you share notes with, the cute guy you have a crush on, the gunner who talks too much in class, and ask yourselves, do you know who anyone really is?

和分享笔记那个文女孩，欢那个帅哥，以及在班上喋喋不休哗众取宠那个同学，然后问问们自己，真了解任何人吗？

She had hoped against hope that something would keep Melanie Hamilton in Atlanta where she belonged, and the knowledge that even her father approved of her sweet quiet nature, so different from her own, forced her into the open.

她曾经不顾事实地一味希望会有什么事情把媚兰·汉密尔顿留在亚兰大，因为她就是那里人呀；而且听到连父亲也完全跟她看法相反，满口赞赏媚兰那文禀性，这就促使她不得不摊开来谈了。

The air of a gentlewoman, a great deal of quiet, inactive good temper, and a trifling turn of mind were all that could account for her being the choice of a sensible, intelligent man like Mr. Allen.

一位淑女气质，一副文不动声色好脾气，再加上一丁点心思，都足以让她成为像艾伦先生这样通情达理、聪明伶俐男人选择。

The quiet, almost passive young woman struck him as exactly the kind of person to whom things were bound to happen, no matter how much she shrank from them and went out of her way to avoid them.

这位文、几乎被动年轻女子给他印象是，无论她多么畏缩和竭力避免，事情都注定要发生在他身上。