A Room with a View — Page 14
我不希望这份接受来自您。无论如何，请允许我这一点。
I do not wish the acceptance to come from you. Grant me that, at all events.
比比先生回来了，略显紧张地说：
Mr. Beebe was back, saying rather nervously:
「爱默生先生有事在身，但他的儿子来了。」
"Mr. Emerson is engaged, but here is his son instead."
那年轻人俯视着三位女士，她们觉得自己仿佛坐在地板上，因为椅子实在太低了。
The young man gazed down on the three ladies, who felt seated on the floor, so low were their chairs.
「我父亲，」他说，「正在洗澡，所以您无法亲自向他道谢。但您转告我的任何话，我会在他出来后立刻转告他。」
"My father," he said, "is in his bath, so you cannot thank him personally. But any message given by you to me will be given by me to him as soon as he comes out."
巴特利特小姐对「洗澡」这个话题实在应付不来。她那些带刺的客套话全都说反了。
Miss Bartlett was unequal to the bath. All her barbed civilities came forth wrong end first.
小爱默生先生取得了一次显著的胜利，令比比先生开心，也令露西暗自窃喜。
Young Mr. Emerson scored a notable triumph to the delight of Mr. Beebe and to the secret delight of Lucy.
「可怜的年轻人！」他一离开，巴特利特小姐便说道。
"Poor young man!" said Miss Bartlett, as soon as he had gone.
「他对父亲安排房间的事情多么生气啊！他已经竭尽全力保持礼貌了。」
"How angry he is with his father about the rooms! It is all he can do to keep polite."
「大约半小时后，您的房间就会准备好，」比比先生说。
"In half an hour or so your rooms will be ready," said Mr. Beebe.
然后他若有所思地看了看这两位表亲，便退回自己的房间，去撰写他的哲学日记。
Then looking rather thoughtfully at the two cousins, he retired to his own rooms, to write up his philosophic diary.
「哦，天哪！」那位小老太太叹了口气，浑身一颤，仿佛天上所有的风都吹进了这个房间。
"Oh, dear!" breathed the little old lady, and shuddered as if all the winds of heaven had entered the apartment.
「绅士们有时不明白——」她的声音渐渐消散，但巴特利特小姐似乎心领神会，于是两人展开了一番交谈，话题的核心正是那些不够体谅人的绅士们。
"Gentlemen sometimes do not realize—" Her voice faded away, but Miss Bartlett seemed to understand and a conversation developed, in which gentlemen who did not thoroughly realize played a principal part.
Vocabulary
- do
- 执行、做某事
- not
- 否定词，表示否认或拒绝
- wish
- 希望、想要、渴望
- the
- 定冠词，用于特指名词
- acceptance
- 接受、认可、同意
- to
- 介词或不定式标记
- come
- 来、到达、发生
- from
- 来自、从某处或某人
- you
- 你、你们
- Grant
- 赠予、同意、承认
- me
- 我、宾格代词
- that
- 那个、那样
- at
- 在、于、向
- all
- 全部、所有
- events
- 事件、事情
- Mr
- 先生，男性的敬称
- was
- 是、过去式
- back
- 回来、背部、返回
- saying
- 说、谈论
- rather
- 相当、宁愿、有点
- nervously
- 紧张地、神经紧张地
- is
- 是、存在
- engaged
- 已订婚、忙碌的
- but
- 但是、然而、除了
- here
- 这里、在这里
- his
- 他的
- son
- 儿子、男性后代
- instead
- 代替、反而、作为替代
- The
- 定冠词
- young
- 年轻的、青年的
- man
- 男人、人类
- gazed
- 凝视、注视
- down
- 下、向下
- on
- 在、在上面
- three
- 三、数字三
- ladies
- 女士、淑女
- who
- 谁、哪个人
- felt
- 感到、摸
- seated
- 坐着的、就座的
- floor
- 地板、楼层
- so
- 所以、如此、那么
- low
- 低的、矮的、低落的
- were
- 是、过去复数
- their
- 他们的、她们的
- chairs
- 椅子、座位
- My
- 我的
- father
- 父亲、爸爸
- he
- 他
- said
- 说、谈到
- in
- 在、里面
- bath
- 浴室、洗澡
- cannot
- 不能、无法
- thank
- 感谢、谢谢
- him
- 他、宾格代词
- personally
- 亲自、个人地
- But
- 但是、然而
- any
- 任何、任何的
- message
- 信息、讯息、消息
- given
- 给予、赠送
- by
- 被、通过、由
- will
- 意愿、遗嘱、将来
- be
- 是、成为
- as
- 作为、如同
- soon
- 很快、不久
- comes
- 来、到达
- out
- 出来、出现
- Miss
- 小姐、未婚女士
- unequal
- 不相等的、不匹配的
- All
- 全部、所有
- her
- 她的、她
- barbed
- 有倒钩的、尖刻的
- civilities
- 礼貌、客套言辞
- came
- 来、到达
- forth
- 前进、向前
- wrong
- 错误的、不对的
- end
- 结束、末端
- first
- 首先、第一
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