1·He became a taciturn man, a man not easy to live with. Later, when the older children married and had children of their own, he mellowed a little.
他变成了一个沉默寡言的人、一个不容易相处的人。后来，等大点的孩子们结了婚，也有了他们自己的孩子，他变得平和了些。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·The King chafed bitterly over the stupendous indignity thus put upon his royalty, but Hendon was moody and taciturn.
国王对他的王权受到的巨大侮辱感到非常愤怒，亨顿更是憋住一肚子气，沉默寡言。
3·Well before he died of cancer in 2008, Harold Pinter knew he had earned a reputation for being "enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding".
早在2008年哈罗德·品特因癌症去世之前，他就知道了自己赢得了“高深莫测、沉默寡言、简洁、多刺、暴躁以及令人生畏”的名声。
4·WELL before he died of cancer in 2008, Harold Pinter knew he had earned a reputation for being “enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding”.
早在2008年哈罗德•品特因癌症去世之前，他就完全知道自己赢得了“高深莫测、沉默寡言、简洁、多刺、暴躁以及难以亲近”的名声。
5·But for Charles Dickens, another foreign visitor to America in the 19th century, it was the Americans who seemed taciturn.
不过19世纪美国的另一位外国游客Charles Dickens则认为，美国人才是沉默寡言。
1·We took a floatplane to the trail head. Our taciturn guide pointed out that it was this robust aircraft that had helped to open up the wilderness in the Fifties.
我们乘坐一架水上飞机来到小道的顶端，沉默寡言的导游指着飞机说，五十年代人们正是在这种飞机的得力帮助下开拓荒野。
2·Mr Heston's favourite of his film characters was no genius or prophet, but the taciturn, determined cowboy in "Will Penny" (1968).
赫斯顿扮演过的电影角色中，他自己最满意不是那些天才或是先知，而是1968年《威尔·平尼》一剧中沉默寡言，坚忍不拔的牛仔。
3·He reverted to his old taciturn ways.
他又恢复了他的静默寡言。