They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.
他们很少谈起彼此的感情;对这样经受过考验的朋友而言,动听的措辞和热烈的表白,大概已经没有必要。
— Thomas Hardy · Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) · Gabriel and Bathsheba —