No answer from Mrs. ----, just a wistful half-smile.
该女士实在无话可说，只好苦笑。
2
An FCO spokesman has said its team did "everything they could to secure the couple's safe release", but this raises only an ironic half-smile.
联邦发言人说他们尽了最大的努力去确保人质的安全，但这句话只是为他赢得嘲笑。
3
Even the faintest whisper about the City of Light conjures immutable images of Monet's gardens, the Mona Lisa's unnerving half-smile, the palace of Versailles' glittering hall of mirrors.