她是一位瘦小、沉默的女子，面容消瘦，头发稀疏。She was a small, silent woman with pinched features and thin hair.窗里是沉默的紧张.A tense silence hung over the room.他想起她以前那种沉默的能耐,心里不觉恐慌起来.He may well have recalled with apprehension her ancient faculty ...
Their quarterly meetings were anodyne affairs.他们的季度会议乏善可陈。It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant.这是他们的人生乐趣, 他们的一时荒唐, 他们的止痛药, 他们的脑力刺激剂.Although rejected in favour of an anodyne text...