He thought that her eyes looked hungry because she had perhaps had nothing to eat for a long time. He did not know that they looked so because she was hungry for the warm, merry life his home held and his rosy face spoke of, and that she had a hungry wish to snatch him in her arms and kiss him. He only knew that she had big eyes and a thin face and thin legs and a common basket and poor clothes. So he put his hand in his pocket and found his sixpence and walked up to her benignly.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
What had Emile meant? Her permission to Vere was connected in his mind with Peppina. He must know something about Vere and Peppina that she did not know. She looked at him, and her face, usually so sensitive, so receptive, so warmly benign when it was turned to his, was hard and cold. "Emile," she said, "what was it you meant about Peppina? I think I have a right to know. I brought her into the house. Why should Peppina have anything to do with my giving Vere permission to read your books?"
Artois' instinct was not to tell what Vere had not told, and therefore had not wished to be known.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
"If a dish at table is not to our taste, there is no occasion to disgust others with it, child," the old lady continued benignly, "especially when marriage has seemed to us all, from Eve downwards, so excellent an institution. You have no mother?"英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
The man whom once, Melpomene, Thou look'st on with benignant sight, Shall never at the Isthmus be A boxer eminent in fight, Nor fares he foremost in the flight Of Grecian cars to victory, Nor goes with Delian laurels dight, The man thou lov'st, Melpomene!英文原著 · 《Ballads in Blue China and Verses and Translations》
Well, he said there's definitely nothing to worry about. It's totally benign.美剧 · 《Friends》
It was benign, didn't bother my husband, but I couldn't stand looking at it.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
That will encourage the spread of relatively benign mutations That will encourage the spread of relatively benign mutations演讲 · 《Dangerous memes ~ Dan Dennett》