As the painting's biographer, Donald Sassoon, dryly notes, "In reality the effect can be obtained from any portrait."

正如这幅画的传记作者唐纳德·沙逊枯燥无味地指出，“实际上，这种效果可以从任何一幅肖像画中获得。”

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SERBIA, comments one eurocrat dryly, is being defrosted bit by bit.

一位欧盟官员淡淡地评论道，塞尔维亚，正在一点点地解冻。

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"You've got nowhere to go but down from here," the forum's moderator said dryly.

“没地方可去只好下来”，参会主持人冷淡的说。

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At first, such a pledge sounds dryly resolute, like the plot synopsis for a science documentary.

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But, as Ms Magaloni dryly comments, Mexicans have lost their capacity to react to scandal.

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One night, he recounts dryly, he scanned the diary to read that his wife had called Dr. Jack Kevorkian.

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