The usually taciturn mr diskin 's remarks were promptly endorsed by meir dagan , a long-serving past director of mossad , the external intelligence service .
Before he drove away , my mother took him aside and showed him how to run a dishwasher . He is taciturn to the point of being rude .
在他开车离开前，我母亲把他叫到身边教他如何使用洗碟机，他却沉默得近乎粗鲁。
Hillary clinton , his designated secretary of state , and joe biden , the vice-president-elect and foreign policy expert , have also been uncharacteristically taciturn on the subject .
他指定的国务卿希拉里.克林顿、当选副总统乔.拜登和外交政策专家都一反常态的在这件事上保持了沉默。
In his book " democracy in america " , alexis de tocqueville refers to the " strange unsociability and reserved and taciturn disposition of the english " .
