matronly

1 The smaller girl, a brunette with a haircut somewhat matronly for one so young, said, "Did you know that your house used to be on a show?"

2 Her older sister, Margaret, was matronly and dignified, probably from having assumed matronly and housewifely responsibilities too early in life, their mother having died when they were quite young.

3 I am calm; I regard the antics of my fellow students, who act like the textbook, with a combination of scientific curiosity and almost matronly indulgence.

4 Robbie was there, too, bustling about in a floral-print dress like the belle of the ball—albeit a matronly belle—making sure all her students had arrived with sheet music in hand.

5 From above the woman’s figure looked even more matronly and reassuring.

6 The matronly but sharp-tongued owner, Augusta Ribeiro, routinely dresses down customers for refusing wine, and once, I was told, she called a man impotent for asking for hot sauce.

7 So Mrs Chick, who had her matronly apprehensions that this indulgence in grief might be prejudicial to the little Dombey (' acid, indeed, 'she whispered Miss Tox), hastened to the rescue.

奇克夫人有她当家庭主妇的忧虑，生怕这样放纵地悲伤会对小董贝不利(“真酸，”她对托克斯小姐说道)，所以急忙进行抢救。

8 There were so many dress options online, yet the few that fit the definition of modest were painfully dull and matronly.

9 It's hard to defend the Prince Regent as a family man, with his endless procession of matronly mistresses and his addiction to the liquid form of opium.

10 At the beach, she wore those squarish bathing suits, which matronly bosom into pointy, cone-shaped bras.

11 I like to read in coffee shops, and I began to receive concerned glances from matronly women, the kind of looks that said, “Oh, honey.”

12 The Shire Tranquil and pastoral, the Shire is home to the Hobbits, a bizarre race of tiny, shoeless, greedy, pipe-smoking, badly dressed little men and matronly wives.

13 Transforming the elegant British, non-Jewish actress into the matronly prime minister required prosthetics for the cheeks, chin, nose and neck, plus contact lenses and a wig.

14 Her matronly fame was trodden under all men's feet.

她那主妇的声名任凭所有的人践踏在脚下。

15 Overall, the women looked kind of matronly – ironic in a town known for its desperate attempts to look young.

16 Then - the morning light still waxing stronger - old patriarchs would rise up in great haste, each in his flannel gown, and matronly dames, without pausing to put off their night-gear.

之后，曙光渐明，老汉们会匆忙爬起身，穿上法兰绒长袍，主妇们则顾不上脱下她们的睡衣。

17 Personally, I found the cape oddly matronly, but the choice, and the reaction, especially its lack of skepticism about either the origin of the dress or its cost, was notable.

18 Except perhaps among those who approach the season’s much-touted below-the knee hemlines with caution, some women dismissing the look as matronly, a relic straight out of granny’s closet.

19 She can’t tell if Terry’s outfit is a uniform or if it’s just so boring that it looks like one: black pants, clunky black shoes with rubber soles, a matronly peach-colored T-shirt.

20 She returned in Disney's 2015 reboot of the franchise, the "The Force Awakens," appearing as the more matronly General Leia Organa, leader of the Resistance movement fighting the evil First Order.

1 肥胖

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2 肥胖的

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3 庄重

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4 主妇

mistress housewife housekeeper madam homemaker hairpin matron missus goodwife Hausfrau housemistress housefrau materfamilias herself

5 尊严的

grave dignified August

6 沉着的

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7 庄重的

heavy serious formal solemn sedate prim severe modest sober stately dignified great grand majestic ballroom budge staid portly Dantesque Dantean buskined

8 发福的

large portly corpulent

9 尊严

grave dignified August face worship dignity sanctity

10 发福

large portly corpulent corpulence portliness

11 端庄的

modest prim demure ladylike

12 稳重的

stable balanced stately even-tempered

13 沉着

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14 端庄

modest modestly demurely primly modesty primness prim demure ladylike dignity