it seems to me there are two aspects to women. There is the demure and the dauntless.
据我看来女人有两种类型，即矜持端庄型和勇敢无畏型。

I scoffed at such ridiculous conventions designed to keep demure young ladies in control.
我对这种试图控制年轻女子的旧传统很是鄙夷。

If the demure graceful beauty in aesthetic, in the water side, gazing at itself in a mirror.
仿佛诗经里娴静婉约的唯美佳人，在水一方，揽镜自照。

But perhaps the cemeterys biggest crowdpuller is the relatively demure tomb of Nikita Krushchev.
其中最引人瞩目的还应该是赫鲁晓夫庄严肃穆的陵墓了。

I am flummoxed. Could you make it more demure Absolutely, I could do a routine where I went like this.
我搞砸了。你能做的更端庄一些吗？当然，我可以这样跳

Their beauty is in the unity of the simple and complex, the obvious and subtle, the audacious and demure.
它们的美在于简单和复杂, 明显和微妙, 无畏和端庄的统一。

They were so thrilled and delighted that they flung away any pretence of being demure young ladies and rushed out of the house.
她们惊喜若狂，因此一扫少女往常的矜持，冲出屋子。