莫琳曾是老于世故的典型。
在比他圆通世故的伦敦人帮助下，廷代尔把译完一半的新约藏进箱子底层，化名逃到德国。
Tyndale was helped, by Londoners with more worldly wisdom than himself, to go to Germany under a false name, with his half-completed rendering of the New Testament tucked deep inside his trunk.
如果美国人不想看到温文尔雅而又精明世故的国外航空公司挺进美国市场，那么现在就是鼓励本国合作的最佳时机。
If Americans are not keen to see suave and sophisticated foreign carriers muscling in, this is the time to encourage all-American relationships.
如果精于世故的神学家或后现代相对主义者认为，通过淡化存在的重要性，他们正在将上帝从多余的废物堆中拯救出来，那么他们应当三思。
If sophisticated theologians or postmodern relativists think they are rescuing God from the redundancy scrap-heap by downplaying the importance of existence, they should think again.
但是，埃及虽然并不富裕，却有久经世故的精英阶层，受过良好教育的中产阶级，还有强烈的民族自豪感。
But Egypt, though poor, has a sophisticated elite, a well-educated middle class and strong sense of national pride.
巴黎景色让不谙世故的旅游者们大吃一惊。
The sights of Paris bowled over the unsophisticated tourists.
那是我从那张世故的老脸上第一次逼出的些许惊讶神情。
It was the first surprised look I managed to extort from that old knowing face.
波士顿悠闲但世故的市民不仅以高收入自豪，而且也以教育水平高而自豪。
Its unhurried but sophisticated citizens boast not only high incomes but also high levels of education.
美国海军武官乔伊斯是个老于世故的，乐呵呵的爱尔兰人，他请帕米拉跳舞。
Captain joyce, the american naval attache, a jolly irishman with a knowing eye, asked pamela to dance.
相比之下，如股市大户一类的久经世故的投资者就不大容易跌入这样的陷阱。
By contrast, sophisticated investors, such as big stock market players, are unlikely to fall prey to this trap.
不一会儿，她把话题岔开了，不过全凭她施展出深通人情世故的女人的全部本事。
Presently, thought with all the skill of a woman of the world, she shuffled away the subject.
啊，是的，她厌恶那种对出自纯朴心肠的热泪加以嘲笑的，老于世故的，冷酷的玩世不恭态度。
Ah, yes, she abhorred the cold cynicism of the worldly-wise who sneer at the burning tears of the simple-minded .
但埃及，尽管贫穷，有着一群久经世故的精英，一个受良好教育的中产阶层和一种强烈的民族自豪感。
But Egypt, though poor, has a sophisticated elite, a well-educated middle class and strong sense of national pride.
在应约参观他们的美好生活时，我和丈夫不再是久经世故的美国游客，反而感觉自己像贫寒的堂兄堂妹。
Instead of being the sophisticated Americans returning for a visit, my husband and I began to feel like poor Cousins invited to sample the good life.
以20世纪30年代的电影《德古拉》(1931年)为例，吸血鬼德古拉伯爵是一个久经世故的欧洲贵族。
Back to the 1930s, for example, in the movie Dracula (1931), Count Dracula, the vampire, was a sophisticated European nobleman.
而你却因为人家偶尔表示了喜欢便乐滋滋的，殊不知这是一个出身名门的绅士，一个精于世故的人对一个下属、一个初出毛庐的人所作的暧昧表示。
And you have derived pleasure from occasional tokens of preference -- equivocal tokens shown by a gentleman of family and a man of the world to a dependent and a novice.
他15岁时就比他那些居住在乡村的表兄们懂人情世故了。
At 15, he was more worldly than his older cousins who lived in the country.
女士们坠入情网之后就想呵护这个不够世故，看上去需要保护的男人，想帮助他长大。
Women fall in love and want to nurture this unworldly, slightly vulnerable man and help him grow up.
深谙世故却不世故，才是最成熟的善良。
Thoroughly understanding the world but not sophisticated is the maturest kindness.
我们这个时代认为，老于世故就等于不抱幻想。但是那些有幻想的人，才是真正难对付的家伙。
We live in an age when it's considered sophisticated to be disenchanted. But people who are enchanted are the real tough cookies.
我们发誓赌咒，像土狼一样唱歌闲聊，我们的幽默并不老于世故，但确实很开心。
We swear with flair, sing and cackle like hyenas. Our humour is not sophisticated but it is joyful.
露西的冷漠世故让巴里显得很不重要。
Barry had his nose put out of joint by Lucy's aloof sophistication.
对很多人来说，这些毛衫可以唤起儿时回忆，也是一年中“所有人褪去世故，表露真心”的时刻。
For many, they bring back memories of grandma and a time of year when "everybody just drops their sophistication and goes for the heart."
当问起是什么鼓舞着她，作为一位有着谦逊血统的黑人妇女，去挑战华盛顿的那些精明世故之人，她会毫不犹豫的回答：是她深厚的浸信信仰。
Ask what emboldens her, as a black woman of modest origins, to challenge the sophisticates of Washington, and she answers like a shot: her deep Baptist faith.
这两本书中的福斯特让人觉得捉摸不定、老于世故。
But the Forster in both these books comes across as covertly sophisticated.
这两本书中的福斯特让人觉得捉摸不定、老于世故。
But the Forster in both these books comes across as covertly sophisticated.
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