科恩在努力表现出一副更和善、更温柔的形象。
Cohen was making an effort to present a kinder, gentler image.
这给她造成了困扰，尽管从表面上，她对孩子们表现出比以往更多的温柔和关切，好象是她有多么疼爱他们似的。
This troubled her, and in her manner she was all the more gentle and anxious for her children, as if she loved them very much.
但乔治肯定，斯特伦克夫人暗暗刻意表现得与她的丈夫不同；因为她受新式教育，将手段隐在温柔中。
But Mrs. Strunk, George feels sure, takes leave to differ gently from her husband; for she is trained in the new tolerance, the technique of annihilation by blandness.
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