The King chafed bitterly over the stupendous indignity thus put upon his royalty, but Hendon was moody and taciturn.
国王对他的王权受到的巨大侮辱感到非常愤怒,亨顿更是憋住一肚子气,沉默寡言。
Well before he died of cancer in 2008, Harold Pinter knew he had earned a reputation for being "enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding".