He pulled a wry face when I asked him how it had gone.

我问他近况如何，他有些哭笑不得。

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Pinocchio looked at the glass, made a wry face, and asked in a whining voice, "Is it sweet or bitter?"

皮诺乔看了一眼玻璃杯，做了个鬼脸，用哀怨的声音问：“这是甜的还是苦的？”

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She glanced at the writing-table heaped with books, opened a volume of the "Contes Drolatiques," made a wry face over the archaic French, and sighed: "What learned things you read!"

她瞥了一眼堆满书籍的写字台，打开一卷《幽默故事》，对着那些古法语愁眉苦脸地说：“你读的东西好深奥呀！”

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And when Hobbes tells that story, which he mentions a couple of times in the book, one can only imagine he must have had a kind of wry grin on his face when he wrote that out.

霍布斯在书中几次提到，当借用这个故事的时候，你能想象到,他的脸上呈现的会是怎样的苦笑。

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