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。
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. A taciturn man, he replied to my questions in monosyllables. 他不爱说话，对我的问题一两个字就打发了。
5. He reverted to his old taciturn ways. 他又恢复了他的静默寡言。
