His soft, courteous, slightly smiling delivery encouraged people to listen, as to a favourite uncle.

他轻柔、谦恭、略带微笑的讲话风格使人们愿意聆听，就像听一个可爱的叔叔讲话一样。

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ANN: (looking at Joe; smiling very slightly to him) I am so glad to hear you say it.

安妮：(微笑地看着乔)我很高兴听你这么说。

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She seems to be smiling ever so slightly.

她似乎面带微笑非常轻微。

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We follow the aging of the Carati parents and the progress of their four children above all, of Nicola (Luigi Lo Cascio), smiling and slightly guarded, who grows up to be a psychologist, and of his handsome brother Matteo (Alessio Boni), whose rage for order finds him joining the police.

NEWYORKER: The Best of Youth

The old man was heavy and gray-haired, with eyes narrowed and mouth slightly open, as if he were asthmatic, but he was smiling as well as he could.

NEWYORKER: Free Radicals

Mr. GRAVES: I'm sure that good Jack, with that great Irish face and a slightly out of place nose, must be looking down from heaven and then smiling.

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