This quaint custom should be revived.
应该恢复这一独特的风俗。
Lord, how marvellous a thing it is, the grip his memory doth take upon his quaint and crazy fancies!
主啊，这是多么奇妙的一件事啊！他的记忆抓住了他那古怪而疯狂的幻想！
Deta had heard from her lady that a sweet, quaint child was wanted as playmate and schoolmate for the invalid.
迪蒂从她的主人那里听说，需要一个甜美又精怪的孩子做病人的玩伴和同学。
Yet talk of an Asian century sounds quaint.
可是亚洲世纪这样的说法仍然显得很奇怪。
Gazetting sounds quaint, but is anything but.
在宪报上刊登听起来古怪，但决不是。
Some supposed sources of progress now appear almost quaint.
一些被称为进步的源泉现在看起来几乎有点奇怪。
Joshua Becker is the quaint Buddha that lives in modern America.
约夏。贝克是一个有趣的活佛，他目前居住在美国。
These days in Silicon Valley, a billion dollars seems downright quaint.
日前，硅谷数十亿美元看起来都不可思议。
I think in ten years the TV show 'the Office' will be seen as a quaint antique.
我想10年后或许我们电视节目播放一部“办公室”都会被视为稀奇的古董了。
Apostrophes that once distinguished between "its" and "it's" seem quaint and arbitrary.
曾经区分“its”和“its”中的省略符看上去奇怪且含义不清。
The shop and the two quaint pubs with the over-friendly barmaids are doing a roaring trade.
一家商店，两家老派的酒吧，吧女们的态度热情得过了头。商店和酒吧一概生意兴隆。
From rice patties, to volcanoes, quaint Balinese villages, a trip to Bali is a trip of a lifetime.
从肉饼饭到火山，再到古朴的巴厘岛村落，巴厘岛一定是你终身难忘的旅程。
And, the idea of a space ark carrying a boatload of colonists here is a quaint 16th-century notion.
而且，一艘方舟运来大量殖民者的想法也是来自16世纪的古怪念头。
"Quaint", "charming", "friendly" and "peaceful" are the stock adjectives and it's hard to improve on them.
怎样来形容它呢？宁静，迷人，友好，平和等是现成的形容词，但都难以说尽大马南岛的好处。
Everywhere people bemoan the replacement of the local and the quaint by outposts of big, homogeneous chains.
无论哪里，当具有地方性和奇特性的东西被一些大型的单一性的链条代替时，人们都会表示惋惜。
Vistas of the lake reveal a serene scene surrounded by palatial villas, tree-clad mountains, and quaint villages.
湖的景色透露着宁静安详，周围是富丽堂皇的别墅，绿树覆盖的山脉和古雅的村庄。
Perhaps you saw “ethnography” and assumed it would just be quaint reports from the Amazon and the South Seas.
或许你看到“民俗”这个词就会认为这是关于亚马逊流域以及南部海域那些罕见部族风俗的报道。
Maybe as quaint jewelry, but the correct time is on your smartphone, which is pretty much always in your hand.
手表也许会成为一件古老而别致的首饰，但正确的时间当然是在你的智能手机上——而它几乎总是在你手里。
It seems quaint that critics once complained that finance was all about untrammelled markets and deregulation.
批评家曾经抱怨金融业务都在围绕着不受制约的市场和违规行为打转，眼下这倒显得奇怪。
Yet Mr Miliband wants to talk about work-life balance, the joys of quaint local shops and other expensive luxuries.
但是爱德先生却想要大谈平衡工作与生活，享受当地商店古色古香的情调以及其他昂贵的奢侈品。
With its quaint name and features about road safety, Top Gear undertook the serious business of reviewing new cars.
有着奇特的名字注重汽车公路安全性的TopGear开始了介绍评论新车的正经事儿。
I'll be the first to admit, when you look at the church out in Fauquier County, it looks like a quaint country church.
当你看到福奥奎尔郡的教堂，我会第一个承认那是一个古怪的乡村教堂。
It HAS become quaint, in the era of Skype and unlimited calling plans, to worry too much about the cost of phone calls.
在这个网络电话盛行和有无数呼叫计划的时代，我们如果还是很关心电话费用就显得有些不合适了。
Its answering prowess, so formidable on a winter afternoon in 2011, will no doubt seem quaint in a surprisingly short time.
它回答的技术将毫无疑问的在令人惊讶的短时间内做得更为精巧，也许就在2011年冬天的某个下午，它将变得更加强大。
For those that don't know what nixie tubes are, they were used back in 1969 in calculators and are quaint neon display tubes.
跟那些不知数码管为何物的朋友提个醒，数码管是十分精巧氖气显示管，在1969就被用于计算器中。
Those early lessons seem quaint, because five months into our union, Jenny and I found out that a baby is coming in November.
这些早期的教训看来古怪，因为我们结合五个月后，詹妮和我发现，宝宝十一月来了。
But as the thwarted candidates' backers become more radical, these views on nuclear issues are starting to sound rather quaint.
但是当失利候选人的支持者变得越来越激进时，他们的核观点就听起来相当不靠谱了。
But as the thwarted candidates' backers become more radical, these views on nuclear issues are starting to sound rather quaint.
但是当失利候选人的支持者变得越来越激进时，他们的核观点就听起来相当不靠谱了。
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