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

我听过太多文静的人因自己害羞，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."

“没有优雅的姑娘们来念给你听和陪你消愁解闷吗？姑娘们是文静的，喜欢装作护士。”

He thought he would meet a quiet, shy girl.

他以为他会遇到一个文静害羞的女孩。

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

一个文静、英俊的男人， 衣着寒酸。

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应家庭而决定学习英语的文静的家庭主妇。

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

他是个瘦小而孱弱的孩子，虽然八岁了，但个子很矮，文静得到了羞怯的地步，除非别人跟他说话，否则是从来不开口的。

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

文静的布鲁克生成功地说服了他的朋友，他的计划是很好的，有理智的，然后他骄傲地把麦格带进来吃晚饭。

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，对她的那种文静贤淑的仪态，她的学识和她所肯的种种高尚品质，他都十分尊敬。

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

他是个文静而话语不多的入，在自然史博馆已经干了27年，从l990年以来一直担任这个部门的主任。”

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的马驹和文静的母马，可如今空荡荡的，只有塔尔顿生在停战后骑回家来的那匹骡子了。

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，突然看到她那双宁静的仿佛正在出神的褐色的眼睛，她那双戴着的黑色花边长手套的温和的小手和那种高雅文静的神态。

" 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.

“你那天说过，只要能去安妮·莫法特家，你就心满意足了，”贝思以她通常的那种文静声气说。

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.

一个文静不张扬的男人， 对她肯定会像之前和儿子谈情说爱的时候那样， 多了几分矫揉造作的机械气息。

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，挽着他的肩膀，俨然一副新少奶奶端庄文静的模样。塔拉农场所有的人，无论白人黑人，全都来为艾希礼送行。

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.

走上前来的不是一位文静的中年牧师，而是一位坦率而端庄的年轻女士——一位与他经常见到的大多数人不同类型的年轻女士。

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?

和你分享笔记的那个文静女孩，你喜欢的那个帅哥，以及在班上喋喋不休哗众取宠的那个同学，然后问问你们自己，你真的了解任何人吗？

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，无论她散开的长裙显得多么老实，发髻梳在后面显得多么端庄，那双交叠在膝头上的小手显得多么文静，她的本来面目终归是藏不住的。

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·汉密尔顿留在亚特兰大，因为她就是那里的人呀；而且听到连父亲也完全跟她的看法相反，满口赞赏媚兰那文静的禀性，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.

一位淑女的气质，一副文静不动声色的好脾气，再上一丁点心思，都足以让她成为像艾伦生这样通情达理、聪明伶俐的男人的选择。

It was true that in Bubber there was a tough, mean streak. He was acting different today than he had ever acted before. Up until now he was always a quiet little kid who never really done anything mean.

的确，在巴伯身上有一种强硬、刻薄的性格。他今天的表现与以往任何时候都不一样。一直到现在，他都是一个文静的小孩，从来没有真正做过什么卑鄙的事。