He had grown sparer, and lost his colour, and spoke and dressed quite differently.

他现在又高又瘦，气色也不如以前，衣着和言谈都和以前不一样了。

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There was a restless, anxious expression in his countenance I had never remarked there before; and he looked sparer in person.

他脸上有一种不安的、焦虑的表情，这是我以前从来没有看过的；他本人也望着消瘦些。

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And now in "The Hothouse", written in 1958 but not staged until 1980, Mr Pinter plays the coarsest character of them all, Roote, the corrupt head of an indeterminate institution where the inmates and the staff are exploited to the point of torture and death, a theme he was to develop in a sparer and more political way in his later "Mountain Language".

ECONOMIST: From the archive