This man was as humourless as a dictionary.

这个男人像本字典一样一本正经。

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In addition, North Korea's humourless chief negotiator in the Beijing talks, Kim Kye Gwan, had been given a hero's welcome in New York by serving and former American officials.

此外，北京会谈朝方代表团不苟言笑的团长金桂冠(Kim Kye Gwan)在纽约也受到现任和前任美国官员如同英雄一般的欢迎。

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Whereas Mr Ramadan comes across as prickly and humourless, Ms Hirsi Ali plays up her glamorous feminine side.

ECONOMIST: Muslim futures

The line is not entirely humourless, with stickers of a hula-hooping watermelon and a happy orange waving a pennant.

ECONOMIST: Hobbies

Miss Leavitt comes across as a sort of wraith humourless and often ill, and rumoured to haunt the observatory after her death.

ECONOMIST: Twirls and swirls from outer space