Anna Karenina — Page 6
Matvey was already holding up the shirt like a horse's collar, and, blowing off some invisible speck, he slipped it with obvious pleasure over the well-groomed body of his master.
马特维已经像举着马颈圈一样举起了衬衫，吹去了一些看不见的尘屑，然后满心欢喜地将衬衫套在了主人那保养得体的身躯上。
Vocabulary
- 已经
- yǐjīng — Already; used to indicate a completed or prior action.
- 像
- xiàng — To resemble; like; similar to something.
- 举着
- jǔ zhe — Holding up; raising and keeping something aloft.
- 一样
- yīyàng — The same; alike; identical in appearance or manner.
- 举起
- jǔ qǐ — To lift up; to raise something with effort.
- 了
- le — Particle indicating completed action or changed state.
- 衬衫
- chènshān — Shirt; a garment worn on the upper body.
- 吹去
- chuī qù — To blow away; to remove something by blowing.
- 一些
- yīxiē — Some; a few; a small indefinite quantity of something.
- 看不见
- kàn bu jiàn — Cannot see; invisible; unable to be perceived visually.
- 的
- de — Structural particle linking modifier to a noun.
- 然后
- ránhòu — Then; after that; indicating the next step or action.
- 满心欢喜
- mǎn xīn huān xǐ — Full of joy; extremely happy and delighted inside.
- 地
- de — Adverbial particle linking adverb or phrase to verb.
- 将
- jiāng — Formal particle indicating a future or imminent action.
- 套在
- tào zài — To slip onto; to put a ring or loop around something.
- 主人
- zhǔrén — Master; owner; the person in charge or possession.
- 那
- nà — That; a demonstrative pronoun referring to something distant.
- 身躯
- shēnqū — Body; the physical frame or torso of a person.
- 上
- shàng — On; upon; a positional word indicating surface or top.
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