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她拘谨严肃，一丝不苟。 She's rather prim and precise. | ||
她拘谨得听不得粗俗得笑话。 She gave a prudish refusal to enjoy rude jokes. | ||
我穿着这样正式的衣服觉得很拘谨。 I felt ill at ease in such formal clothes. | ||
触摸同性时男人比女人要更加拘谨。 Men are more inhibited about touching each other than women are. | ||
研究其它行星系的天文家则比较拘谨。 Those who study other planetary systems have been more restrained. | ||
他们总是彼此显得有点儿别扭，有几分拘谨，不太随意。 They always seemed a little awkward with each other, a bit stiff and formal. | ||
他天生的内敛性格让他显得有些拘谨。 His natural reserve made him appear self-conscious. | ||
联军没有理由随便拘谨上千的阿富汗人，也有很坏的影响。 Casual detentions of thousands of Afghan men, on no good evidence, have also done damage. | ||
那么，对古板拘谨的盎格鲁-撒克逊人，他的概括又如何呢？ And how about his generalisations about stuffy, puritanical Anglo-Saxons? | ||
这位太太年华四十三，其貌不扬，态度拘谨，鼻架眼镜，头发已稀疏。 She was a prim ugly woman of forty-three, who wore glasses and had sparse hair. | ||
