He was too pretty, too delicate and fair-skinned; each of his features was shaped with a sensitive accuracy, and a girlish tenderness softened his eyes, which were brown and very large.
That's one of the things that makes his antisocial behavior, his rudeness, so unconscionable. I can understand why people who are thick-skinned and unfeeling can be rude, but not sensitive people.
我可以理解为什么厚颜无耻又麻木不仁的人会很粗鲁,但不明白为什么敏感的人也是如此。
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Who would have suspected so large and cold and thick-skinned a thing to be so sensitive?