I know nothing, indeed, which so disfigures the countenance of a young person, or so impresses every feature with an air of demureness, if not altogether of sanctimoniousness and of age.

我，说真的，不知道有什么会把一个年轻人的面孔伪装成这样，给面孔的每一部分都加上如此明显的做作神情，如果说不是加上满脸的伪善和世故的话。

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Now what we have instead are ankle-skimming dresses (preferably with long or three-quarter-length sleeves), midi skirts, Downton Abbey-esque high-neck blouses and a general air of demureness.

现在我们有的是齐脚踝长裙（最好带有长袖或是七分袖）、 中长裙和唐顿庄园式的高领女士衬衫，端庄优雅，大气十足。

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But for all the modesty of her spreading skirts the demureness of hair netted smoothly into a chignon and the quietness of small white hands folded in her lap her true self was poorly concealed.

不过，无论她散开的长裙显得多么老实，发髻梳在后面显得多么端庄，那双交叠在膝头上的小手显得多么文静，她的本来面目终归是藏不住的。

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