查询词典 quaint

Today, with businesses and workers struggling to the end of the decade, the groundless fears over the millennium bug seem almost quaint by comparison with what actually happened.

而今，当企业与工人在这十年临近尾声之际苦苦挣扎的时候，与实际发生的一切相比，对千年虫毫无根据的恐惧看上去几乎有些离奇。

She thought of the child consigned to the nethermost corner of hell, as its double doom for lack of baptism and lack of legitimacy; saw the arch-fiend tossing it with his three-pronged fork, like the one they used for heating the oven on baking days; to which picture she added many other quaint and curious details of torment sometimes taught the young in this Christian country.

她想到了那孩子，既是私生，又未受洗，两罪俱罚，就会打到地狱最底层的犄角。她仿佛看见魔王正拿着一把三尖叉，就像人们烤面包时加热炉灶用的那种，把那孩子叉住抛来扔去；在这想像的画面中，她又增添了许多这个基督教国家有时向年轻人昭示的种种稀奇古怪的酷刑。

The doors too, were arched and low, some with oaken portals and quaint benches, where the former inhabitants had sat on summer evenings.

门也都是弓形的而且矮，有些还有橡木大门和老式的长凳，原先居住的主人夏天的晚上就在那上面坐。

The piano has a quaint old-world tone about it.

这架钢琴的音色具有一种古雅的老式风味。

The sides of the streets had a quaint richness, from the effect of the gables, and the stacks of chimneys which cut against the blue sky above; while, if the eye fell lower down, the attention was arrested by all kinds of projections in the shape of balcony and oriel; and it was amusing to see the infinite variety of windows that had been crammed into the walls long before Mr.

街道两旁有一个奇特丰富，从山墙的影响，以及烟囱违反上述蓝天削减栈，而如果眼睛下跌降低了，注意是在预测各种被捕形状的阳台和凸肚，以及它是一件有趣的看到窗户已经不胜枚举挤在墙上早在税收皮特先生的日子。

The chorus, in quaint, dolorous tones, broken by silences full of pantomimic admissions, caused great amusement.

他们的大合唱悲怆而逼真，中间还夹杂着充满忏悔的沉默，观众听了情趣横生。

I thought that it was all very "small town," and quaint.

我认为，这是非常"小城镇"和古雅。

We'll have to get this recipe.- It sounds so quaint, doesn't it?

我们想知道它的配方-很古朴不是吗？

It is very quaint that h e often wears a class and even in the room.

他比较奇怪的一个地方是经常戴墨镜，甚至在屋里的时候也戴。

They lived in a quaint little house .

他们住在一幢老式而别致的小房子里。

Warden: That's a beautiful dog, but don't bring her again.

那是条漂亮的狗，但是不要再把她带来了。

You get up in the morning – no hangover!

你第二天早上起来的时候—不会宿醉！