taciturn的意思|taciturn的解释-里氏词典

taciturn ['tæsə`tɚn]

a. 沉默寡言的, 不太说话的, 无言的

taciturn

[ adj ]
habitually reserved and uncommunicative
<adj.all>

Taciturn \Tac"i*turn\, a. [L. taciturnus: cf. F. taciturne. See
{Tacit}.]
Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or
speak. -- {Tac"i*turn*ly}, adv.

Syn: Silent; reserved.

Usage: {Taciturn}, {Silent}. Silent has reference to the act;
taciturn, to the habit. A man may be silent from
circumstances; he is taciturn from disposition. The
loquacious man is at times silent; one who is taciturn
may now and then make an effort at conversation.

"Society made its choice," said the taciturn prime minister, who took office in August 1989 after decades as a writer in the Catholic opposition.
Few voters have a firmer grip on the national imagination than the blue-denimed, taciturn farmers who file in here.
The normally taciturn Hazelwood smiled broadly for the first time in the two-month trial when the verdicts were announced two days short of the oil spill's first anniversary.
He was the taciturn middle child of a Rhode Island machine-tool-factory credit manager and his wife, a frustrated artist and a Christian Scientist.
The taciturn Souter has been "in a state of near shock" for the past few days, but has come out of it, Rudman told reporters on Air Force One.
In a surprise address to the City Council on May 10, the taciturn Bradley said he made "an error in judgment by engaging in outside employment."
However, his new movie, "Miles From Home," shows the actor's more taciturn side.
The tall, taciturn 62-year-old Solidarity journalist is the least publicly known of the three candidates the labor movement offered to communist President Wojciech Jaruzelski.
"Christian was a taciturn, depressed fellow," Serge said of his brother. "He had no friends, hardly ever talked to anyone.
No one ever complained to the police about him, but we all knew." "Christian was a taciturn, depressed fellow," Serge Dornier said of his brother. "He had no friends, hardly ever talked to anyone.
But at least, according to one political analyst, 'he has learnt how to smile.' A sombre, rather taciturn businessman, Mr Frei is consistently the country's most popular politician in the opinion polls behind President Patricio Aylwin.
Note too the rise of Wynne Godley, who comes in at fifth, up from 16th. David Currie and Andrew Britton are a trifle more taciturn.

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