it is something of a surprise to find that the bank boss with the best line in deadpan humour is guo shuqing, chairman of china construction bank (ccb).
意识到郭树清这样一位走不动声色幽默路线的人是位银行老板时,多少有些惊讶。郭树清是中国建设银行(ccb)董事长。
his deadpan treatment of 「psychogeography」 (imagine modern literary criticism applied to the layout of car parks) is howlingly funny.
他对待「心理地理学」(想象一下将当代文学评论的理念应用到停车场的规划)的那种漠视的态度简直有趣得让人发狂。
hardy, who delivered as astonishing turn in last year「s 「bronson, 」 provides most of the film」s welcome comic relief, needling gordon-levitt with deadpan economy as the heist just gets weirder.
哈代一改去年在《布朗森》(bronson)一片中的彪悍形象,出人意料地转型为片中大部分喜剧桥段的贡献者,并时不时不动声色地「调戏」戈登-莱维特,使得整场植梦阴谋变得更为诡异。
「now that「s an excellent question, but it」s kind of a low bar, 」 geithner continued, deadpan amid rising laughter.
「现在看来这是个绝佳的问题,但它的要求太低了,」在周围扬起的笑声中,盖特纳面无表情地继续说到。
he told hilarious stories in a deadpan voice.
他可以面无表情地用平静的声音讲出笑死人的故事来。
another outstanding work of comic art, from one of the renaissance men of deadpan acting.
另一部喜剧艺术的杰作则来自一位多才多艺的演员,此君善于作面无表情的表演,他就是-汤米·李·琼斯。
people with a 「poker face,」 whose emotions are hidden by a deadpan expression, are looked upon with suspicion.
那种带着一张「扑克脸孔」的人,他的情绪隐藏于毫无表情的面容下,会被别人以怀疑的眼光看待。
this, coupled with a ferociously deadpan humor, makes the artist’s images iconic.
与惊人的冷面幽默「交合」起来,这使艺术家的画作具有了传统风格。
warhol’s close-up portraits of the famous might seem very far away from mr gursky’s anonymously populated urban landscapes, but the two artists share a deadpan neutrality to their subjects.
沃霍尔的特写肖像看起来可能与古尔斯基无名增长的都市图景相去甚远,但都给予他们的摄影对象一种不动声色的中立感。
i was taken by how incredibly funny the novel was, in a deadpan way, with laugh-aloud scenes, such as when scout's teacher at school is horrified to discover that her pupil is literate.
小说虽然行文平淡,但却非常诙谐有趣,经常会有让人捧腹的场景,如斯各特的老师在发现她识字时的惊恐表现。
artificiality in the novel can be excused by the author as commentary on the nature of artificiality itself and the deadpan tone is occasionally infuriating.
小说中夸张的虚构成份也可以被作者解释为对真实世界虚假内容的一种注解,而冷漠的声调就可能是勃然大怒了。
the film’s outrageous deadpan humour recalls the early efforts of its producer, peter jackson.
这部电影不同寻常的冷幽默还要得益于其制片人皮特?杰克逊早期的努力。
her brilliantly deadpan turn as a dispirited store clerk makes you wonder why she hasn’t taken some more adventurous career choices to offset the endless slew of rom-coms.
这部电影中她那种卓越的面无表情反倒成就了一个沮丧的店员,让你好奇她为何不去选择更刺激的职业用来抵消没完没了的浪漫史。
here, the service is deadpan and prices sharp.
这里的服务没有笑脸,价格却不低廉。
deadpan seriousness is a tradition among western performers (the great pianist and teacher josef hoffman told his students to evoke the memory of emotion rather than emotion itself).
严肃而不带任何表情的风格,是西方演奏家历来的传统(伟大的钢琴家和教育家,乔瑟夫·霍夫曼教导他的学生们,要学会去激发有关情感的回忆,而不是情感本身)。