These are not signally, spontaneous outbursts that then will pass like ships in the night.

这些往往都没什么信号，自发地就爆发了，就像夜晚的船只一样驶过。

His father, a charming man who could never say " no, " had so signally failed to say it on certain essential occasions that when he died he left an illegitimate family and a mortgaged estate.

他的父亲是一个很有魅力的人，永远不会说“不”，但在某些重要的场合却明显地没有说“不”，以至于他死后留下了一个私生子家庭和一笔抵押的财产。

'Oh, no, no! I won't have that'. Knight endeavoured to give his reply a laughing tone in Elfride's ears, and an earnestness in Stephen's: in both which efforts he signally failed, and produced a forced speech pleasant to neither.

'哦，不，不！我不会那样做的。奈特努力让他的回答在埃尔弗莱德耳中是一种笑声，在斯蒂芬耳中是一种严肃：在这两种努力中，他都明显失败了，并发表了一段对任何人都不愉快的勉强讲话。

'I do not pretend to understand these things, ' said Mrs. Sparsit, with dignity, 'my lot having been signally cast in a widely different sphere; and Mr. Sparsit, as a Powler, being also quite out of the pale of any such dissensions.

“我不会假装理解这些事情，”斯巴塞夫人带着尊严说道，“我的命运已经明显地投向了一个截然不同的领域；而斯巴塞先生，作为一个鲍勒人，也完全不受任何此类纷争的影响。