From Frank's deprecatory remarks about the money " people" owed him, she had imagined the sums to be small.

从弗兰克愿意提起" 人们" 欠钱的态度来看，她一直以这笔钱多。想到竟是这么大一笔啊！

'But we can't return now, ' he said in a deprecatory tone.

“但我们现在能回去，”用贬低的语气。

She looked back at him with one of those faint half deprecatory, half seductive smiles women are so good at.

她回头看着， 带着一女人擅长的那半带嘲讽半带诱惑的微弱微笑。

The steward stands facing him at the other side of the table, if so deprecatory a stance as his can be called standing.

管家站在桌子的​​另一边面对， 如果像这样贬义的姿势也能叫站着的话。

" Well, it's nothing—much, " he said, with something deprecatory in his tone, as if he felt vague impulses toward both humour and apology.

“好吧，没什么——太多， ” ，语气中带着些许贬低， 仿佛隐隐约约地想要幽默和道歉。

He had just got home from a trip to the store at Carmody, and he sheepishly produced a small parcel from his pocket and handed it to Anne, with a deprecatory look at Marilla.

刚从卡莫迪的商店旅行回来，好意思地从口袋里掏出一个小包裹递给安妮，用鄙视的眼光看着玛丽拉。

Looking in the direction whence it proceeded, Phoebe saw little Ned Higgins, a good way down the street, stamping, shaking his head violently, making deprecatory gestures with both hands, and shouting to her at mouth-wide screech.

朝它前进的方向望去，菲比看到小内德·希金斯，沿着街道走得很远，跺着脚，猛烈摇头，用双手做着贬低的手势，张着嘴尖叫着对她喊叫。