I should never have thought, dear boy of mine, that you were so dainty and fussy about your food.

我的好孩子，我从来没想到你对食物这么讲究，这么挑剔。

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Chinese is dainty about gift in atwain, because odd number is ill-boding.

中国人一般讲究礼品成双，因为奇数被视为不吉利。

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Mrs. Elsing was younger, a thin frail woman, who had been a beauty , and about her there still clung a faded freshness, a dainty imperious air.

埃尔辛太太年轻些，身材纤细瘦弱，她曾经是个美人儿，至今风韵犹存，也仍显得有点骄矜。

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Thirty rows of a dainty, cabled, blue front-side of a cardigan and about three centimetres onto a hot-pink jumper for a child, and we are away.

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