He came towards Leon, and, with that smile of wheedling benignity assumed by ecclesiastics when they question children
他向莱昂走来,面带微笑,就像神甫盘问小孩子时装出来的慈祥一样。
木偶奇遇记
With bows and smiles, he asked in a wheedling tone: " Tell me, my fine boy, do you also want to come to my wonderful country? " " Indeed I do."
微笑着鞠躬,他用哄骗的语气问:“告诉我,我的好孩子,你也要到我那幸福的国家去吗?”“我当然要去。”
新天方夜谭(下)
His countenance had a strongly masculine cast; not properly human, but such as we see in the bull, the goat, or the domestic boar; something equivocal and wheedling, something greedy, brutal, and dangerous.
I gave him my hand, of course, because I could not help it; but the sympathy I had been prepared to feel for Clara's father was immediately soured by his appearance, and the wheedling, unreal tones in which he spoke.