He became a taciturn man, a man not easy to live with. Later, when the older children married and had children of their own, he mellowed a little.

他变成了一个沉默寡言的人、一个不容易相处的人。后来，等大点的孩子们结了婚，也有了他们自己的孩子，他变得平和了些。

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A taciturn man, he replied to my questions in monosyllables.

他不爱说话，对我的问题一两个字就打发了。

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Well before he died of cancer in 2008, Harold Pinter knew he had earned a reputation for being "enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding".

早在2008年哈罗德·品特因癌症去世之前，他就知道了自己赢得了“高深莫测、沉默寡言、简洁、多刺、暴躁以及令人生畏”的名声。

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