查询词典 quaint

Her sweet, eighteenth-century children in their quaint costumes made the name Kate Greenaway synonymous with style, catapulting her into fame, and she seems to have been about the only English artist who was ever the fashion in France.

她设计的甜美甚至使凯特·格林纳威成为十八世纪儿童服装风格的代名词。

On top of clogging Reykjavik's quaint roads, demand for the hulking vehicles has congested international trade.

除了雷克雅未克常常堵塞的精巧公路之外，对笨重的车辆的需求为国际贸易注入了活力。

He was in hot pursuit of his own answer and there were no quaint solutions.

他只是穷追不舍地寻找自己的答案，但是却没有奇特而有趣的解决办法。

His ideas were quaint and fantastic. She brought him judiciously to earth.

他的看法荒廖古怪，她颇有见识地劝他面对现实。

Alex himself is a quaint old English gentleman with a voice slightly reminiscent of Boris Karloff.

亚历克自己是一个古朴老英国绅士与声音稍微想起鲍里斯卡罗弗。

NB: The Machiavelli Questionnaire is at best quaint and sexist, and there are no right answers.

马基维利问卷是非常细致而有趣的，而且没有所谓的正确答案。

The "quaint" hotel was actually a house in dire need of major repair so we went to another hotel.

这家破旧的旅店竟然是一栋急需修葺的房子。于是我们便去了另外一家旅店。

As he rose, I noticed beside him the quaint little woman with a mannish coat and brisk, decided air, who had shared my table at the restaurant.

在他身边，我认出了在饭馆见过的那个小女人，她还穿着那件短外套，一副坚定不移，一丝不苟的神气。

In the age of the Net, some may view it as only marginally quaint.

在网络时代，有些人也许会把它仅仅看作一种处于边缘的奇异做法。

Even with a population of more than 125,000 people, Xichang seems quaint when compared with the massiveness of Beijing: here there are no soaring skyscrapers to block views of the surrounding mountains.

但西昌比成都更让人觉得柔和，步调更慢。尽管人口有12万5千，和北京比起来西昌算是小巧玲珑了：这里没有冲天的大楼挡住周围的大山。

I'm strongly against the death penalty — it's an eye for an eye.

我不赞成死刑——这是以牙还牙的报复行为。

And to get you the support you need, we're enlisting all elements of our national power: our diplomacy and development, our economic might and our moral suasion, so that you and the rest of our military do not bear the burden of our security alone.

并给你们所须的支援，我们正徵召国家所有各种的力量：我们的外交及发展，我们的经济力量与道德劝说，所以你们与其他军人不须要孤独地负起国家安全的责任。