Was it perfectionism? Was it, you know this very serious grimness? And you wanted to be more playful?

对完美主义的追求？还是严酷无情？还是你想变得更顽皮活泼？

" Don't worry: I'm going to tell you, " she said, her grimness not relaxed.

“别担心：我会告诉你的， ” 她说，她的冷酷并没有放松。

Like a junk heap from the Industrial Revolution, the structure exuded inhuman technological grimness and steel-bound barbarity.

就像工业革命的垃圾堆一样，这座建筑散发着非人的技术冷酷和钢铁般的野蛮。

Some tried to explain the grimness and monotony of their world in terms of an endless cosmic war between good and evil, in which humans were the battleground.

有些人试图用善与恶之间无休止的宇宙战争来解释他们世界的严峻和单调，其中人类是战场。

He had reached the stage in a young man's life when the grimness of the general human situation first becomes clear; and the realization of this causes ambition to halt awhile.

他已经到达年轻人生平第一次意识到人生无情严峻的阶段；这种意识会使人暂时收住自己的野心。

She asked the question, meaning if possible to get from him some hint of his intentions; but the grimness of his answer, though it only confirmed her vague suspicions, startled her.

她问这个问题，意思是如果可能的话，想从他那里得到一些暗示他的意图；但是他冷酷的回答，虽然只是证实了她模糊的怀疑，却让她吃了一惊。

And this is why all efforts to escape from the grimness of the present into nostalgia for a still intact past, or into the anticipated oblivion of a better future, are vain.

这也就是为什么想逃避严酷的现在、怀旧地躲进对仍然原封不动的过去，或者在遗忘中预先奔进一个更好的未来的一切努力终将徒劳。

The beauty of the island is unveiled as diminishing distance shows you in distincter shape its lovely peaks, but it keeps its secret as you sail by, and, darkly inviolable, seems to fold itself together in a stony, inaccessible grimness.

当距离逐渐缩小，美丽的峰峦形状愈加真切时，莫里阿岛的美丽便完全呈现出来，但是在你的船只从它旁边驶过时，你会发现它仍然重门深锁，把自己闭合为一堆人们无法接近的阴森可怖的巨石，没有人能闯入它那幽森的奥秘中去。