He became a taciturn man, a man not easy to live with. Later, when the older children married and had children of their own, he mellowed a little.

他变成了一个沉默寡言的人、一个不容易相处的人。后来，等大点的孩子们结了婚，也有了他们自己的孩子，他变得平和了些。

The King chafed bitterly over the stupendous indignity thus put upon his royalty, but Hendon was moody and taciturn.

国王对他的王权受到的巨大侮辱感到非常愤怒，亨顿更是憋住一肚子气，沉默寡言。

Well before he died of cancer in 2008, Harold Pinter knew he had earned a reputation for being "enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding".

早在2008年哈罗德·品特因癌症去世之前，他就知道了自己赢得了“高深莫测、沉默寡言、简洁、多刺、暴躁以及令人生畏”的名声。

A taciturn man, he replied to my questions in monosyllables.

他不爱说话，对我的问题一两个字就打发了。

He reverted to his old taciturn ways.

他又恢复了他的静默寡言。

The child is always taciturn like this.

他总是沉默寡言，不喜欢跟人交流。

He is a taciturn man who dislikes parties.

他是一个不喜欢聚会、天性沉默寡言的人。

No. No, I prefer to be unsociable and taciturn.

不，不，我宁可不善交际而且沉默。

Dinitz had replaced the taciturn yitzhak rabin in March.

三月里，迪尼茨接替了沉默寡言的伊扎克·拉宾所担任的职务。

Jones, the actor, has never been more wry, sly and taciturn.

演员琼斯从未表现出这样的乖戾、狡诈和沉默寡言。

Prince was taciturn, unusual for him, but we still had a hug.

王子很沉默，对他来说不太平常，但是我们仍然拥抱在一起。

Not that he is haughty, she is just of a taciturn disposition.

他何尝是高傲，只是不过生性不爱说话就是了。

But these men were a taciturn lot, picking their words carefully.

但是这些人都是沉默寡言的人，说起话来字斟句酌，非常谨慎。

Taciturn miller, Night falls on you face downward, far from the city.

无言的磨坊主，夜色落到你脸上， 远离都市。

Or was their replacement by taciturn introverts telling me something else?

或者是他们用那些沉默寡言的人们作为替代用来告诉我另外的一些东西？

When he had spoken, John Alden, the fair - haired, taciturn stripling.

当他说话时，约翰·奥尔登，淡黄头发的，沉默的年轻人。

No animal is more diligent than the ants, however, it is most taciturn.

没有任何动物比蚂蚁更勤奋，然而它却最沉默寡言。

But when the topic turns to the Kinect hackers, Mundie's demeanor turns taciturn.

但是当话题转向Kinect黑客，摩戴却沉默了。

We got into Ned's car without another word. It wasn't like Ned to be so taciturn.

我们没再说什么就进了内德的小汽车，内德平时可不是像这样沉默寡言的。

The interviewer was of the serious, taciturn type, but I could tell the answer registered.

面试官是那种不苟言笑的类型，不过我敢说我的回答很合他意。

He may be in Venezuela or working as a suspiciously taciturn short-order chef in a falafel bar in Tripoli.

他也许在委内瑞拉，或是乔装成的黎波里某个快餐店里沉默寡言的厨师。

Hrafnsson is a far more taciturn character than Assange, and not one who seems to relish the spotlight.

拉弗森的性格比阿桑奇要沉默寡言得多，看起来似乎也不是一个喜欢聚光灯的人。

Mother habitually cautioned me not to talk so much, wanting me to be a taciturn, smooth and steady youngster.

我母亲经常提醒我少说话，她希望我能做一个沉默寡言、安稳大方的孩子。

Even so, the first two days we arrived in Egypt, and before boarding the ship, I had remained as taciturn as a wall.

即便如此，在到埃及最初的两天、还没登上游艇的时候，我总是木讷地像堵墙一般。

But for Charles Dickens, another foreign visitor to America in the 19th century, it was the Americans who seemed taciturn.

不过19世纪美国的另一位外国游客Charles Dickens则认为，美国人才是沉默寡言。

There she sat, staid and taciturn-looking, as usual, in her brown stuff gown, her check apron, white handkerchief, and cap.

她坐在那里，还是往常那付沉默寡言的样子，穿着褐色料子服，系着格子围裙，揣着白手帕，戴着帽子。

Mr Heston's favourite of his film characters was no genius or prophet, but the taciturn, determined cowboy in "Will Penny" (1968).

赫斯顿扮演过的电影角色中，他自己最满意不是那些天才或是先知，而是1968年《威尔·平尼》一剧中沉默寡言，坚忍不拔的牛仔。