He was a man about fifty years of age, who had a preoccupied air, and who was good. That was all that could be said about him.
他是个五十左右的人,神色忧虑而性情和好。我们能说的只是这一点。The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
到那日,眼目高傲的人必降卑,性情骄傲的人也必俯首,唯独耶和华被高举。Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
以利亚与我们是一样性情的人,他恳切祷告,求不要下雨,雨就三年零六个月不下在地上。There was a curious sort of person who came to me now and then, with a habit of asking all manner of silly questions.
有一个性情古怪的人时常到我这里,他有一种习惯,老爱问种种愚蠢的问题。Sir Charles was a retiring man, but the chance of his illness brought us together, and a community of interests in science kept us so.
查尔兹爵士性情孤僻,可是他的病把我俩拉到了一起,对科学的共同兴趣也促进了我们的关系。I'd get a sickening sense of dread for the fortnight leading up to them, knowing that I would become a sleep-deprived grumpy, spotty hermit.
十四天的夜班后我发现感到胆战心惊的害怕,我很清楚的知道自己会变成一个睡眠不足的,性情乖戾情绪不稳的隐士。From this one can see how much more virtuous and filial the ancients were. We should quickly return to the virtuous ways of old.
可见古人的性情,确是比较淳厚,我们怎能不快快恢复固有道德呢?The disposition is gentle, easy to be together, on the body has one kind the strange charm which makes one resist with difficulty.
性格性情温柔,易于相处,身上有一种令人难以抵御的奇异的魅力。The company employs a driver, who knows Mr Oliver's ways well enough to stiffen and call him "sir" as he enters.
公司雇佣了一名司机。司机深谙奥利弗的性情,奥利弗一走进来,他就挺直了身子,称他“先生”。