汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 不苟言笑
不苟言笑
serious in speech and manner / not frivolous in talking and joking
苟 Superlatively, casually / Don't joke casually / Describes a solemn attitude
bù/bú gǒu yán xiào
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

即使是平时不苟言笑的福特也好几次笑出了声。

Even Ford, who seldom smiled, laughed out loud a few times.

她带他们去探望她那些不苟言笑的表哥表姐们。

She took them to visit her sedate, elderly cousins.

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。

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

在早期照片里,松下幸之助是一个不苟言笑,有一对机翼般招风耳的青年。

Early pictures of Konosuke Matsushita show an unsmiling young man whose ears stick out like airplane wings.

汤姆森多才多艺,尤以数学和天文学上的成就著称。出生于爱尔兰的汤姆森身材高大、不苟言笑、面容消瘦、目光敏锐。

A well-rounded man, known for his work in astronomy and mathematics, the Irish-born Thomson was a tall, austere figure with a narrow face and keenly penetrating eyes.

贝内特先生是个古怪人,一方面乖觉诙谐,好挖苦人,另一方面又不苟言笑,变幻莫测,他太太积二十三年之经验,还摸不透他的性格。

Mr. . Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humor, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three and twenty years had beeninsufficient to make his wife understand his character.

他有红色的,带有雀斑的皮肤和红色的头发;他四十岁,身材瘦削,有一张消瘦的脸,不苟言笑、有点迂腐;而且他说话带着苏格兰口音,声音很低、很安静。

He has red, freckled skin which accompanied red hair; he was a man of forty, thin, with a pinched face, precise and rather pedantic; and he spoke with a Scots accent in a very low, quiet voice.