He conceals his feelings behind a rather stolid manner. 他装作无动於衷的样子以掩盖自己的感情.
The Queen, however, adopted a stolid expression and flicked her eyes to her left in a look of reproach. 然而,此时的女王则一脸严肃,她看了看左边的这几个人,面露责备之色。
Who so stolid and selfish that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation's jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs? 又有谁是如此淡漠和自私,以至于手脚上奴役的锁链被解开时都不放开嗓门高唱这个国家欢乐的的哈利路亚呢?
stolid
[ adj ] having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited <adj.all> her impassive remotenesshe remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course her face showed nothing but stolid indifference
Stolid \Stol"id\, a. [L. stolidus.] Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.
It is perhaps an indication of Hanson's stolid mass that a Dollars 3.2bn deal will have a modest impact on the company's prospects.
The French view it as the archetype of "la province," a term that designates everything that isn't Paris and conjures up images of stolid conservatism.
As might be expected, these documents tend to be sensible, stolid and undramatic.
As Teresina, the maiden who is drowned in the Bay of Naples and ends up as a Nereid in the Blue Grotto before being restored to life by her faithful fisherman lover, Gennaro, Linda Hindberg was too inflexible in body and too stolid in personality.
The premier's stolid face appears on the cover of this week's Economist magazine beside the caption: "Father of Palestine."
Jimmy and Rosalynn are also humorless, stolid and, when they express an opinion, you already will have heard it a thousand numbing times before.
A stolid, reticent man who was named chief executive in 1983, Mr. Brown was spotlighted in 1985 when the bank pleaded guilty to criminal charges of failing to report $1.2 billion in large cash transactions and paid a $500,000 fine.
It is stamped on the face of Ulan Bator _ in the stolid Soviet-style buildings, the central square that imitates Red Square, the Soviet-made Volga and Lada cars.
But the method, as stolid as it seems in its execution, produced a shimmering and indeterminate world against which the static and caricatured nature of the subjects, the figures in the paintings, stand in vivid contrast.