There's nothing soft or demure about it.

“因为这个声音既不温柔也不端庄。”

Everything that was supposed to define womanhood, demure, chaste serenity, is junked for Costanza.

一切都为定义女性气质而服务，端庄、贞、都揉和在Costanza身上。

George was a demure, studious boy, and his senses seemed to brighten up in the library, where his brother was so gloomy.

乔治学习严肃认真，一进入知识海洋，便显现出惊人天赋；捧起书本的哈里，总蔫头耷脑，满脸愁容。

She must be a woman of complicated character, and there was something dramatic in the contrast of that with her demure appearance.

看来她一定一个性格非常复杂的女人，这同她那端庄娴的外表倒构富于戏剧性的对比。

Like, have you put too much trust in the demure old lady in pink, when really she has a horrible track record and may be entirely unhinged?

比如，你不太信任那个穿粉红色衣服的端庄的老太太，而实际上她的过往记录很糟糕，可能她已经完全精神错乱？

But Scarlett intended to marry — and marry Ashley — and she was willing to appear demure, pliable and scatterbrained, if those were the qualities that attracted men.

要同艾希礼结婚----并且乐意装出一副貌似庄重、温顺而没有主见的模样，如果这些品性真正能够吸引男人的话。

Scarlett seemed demure and sweet enough these days, but there was a pleased complacency in her eyes which annoyed people and she carried a chip on her shoulder which no one cared to disturb.

这些天来，思嘉显得够平和温柔的，但她眼里含着一种洋洋得意的神情，叫人看恼火。不过她天性好斗，谁又犯得上去惹她呢！