costive 

  1. 形容詞
便秘的, 秘結性的
行動遲緩的
沈默寡言的
小氣的, 吝嗇的

    
                        
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                                If he did ask her she would become costive .                            
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                                And there was something costive about his secretiveness.                            
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                                But, oh, how costive is his serpentine prose, how tightly wound and airless.                            
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                                (In truth I had to coax and canoodle a reluctant spark from my grumpy and costive engine block.                            
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                                Her mother had sat at the crowded dinner table, drinking steadily and smoking and speculating aloud on why her daughter had married costive Brian.                            
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