Cranford — Page 11
我不知道她是否漂亮,但我喜欢她的脸庞,所有人也都喜欢,我想她也无法控制自己脸上的酒窝。
I do not know whether she was pretty or not; but I liked her face, and so did everybody, and I do not think she could help her dimples.
她举止步态间带着几分父亲的潇洒;细心的女性观察者或许能发现两姐妹在穿着上有些微差异——杰西小姐每年在衣着上的花费,大约比布朗小姐多出两英镑。
She had something of her father's jauntiness of gait and manner; and any female observer might detect a slight difference in the attire of the two sisters—that of Miss Jessie being about two pounds per annum more expensive than Miss Brown's.
两英镑在布朗上尉的年度开支中可是一笔不小的数目。
Two pounds was a large sum in Captain Brown's annual disbursements.
这便是我第一次在克兰福德教堂见到布朗一家人聚在一起时,他们给我留下的印象。
Such was the impression made upon me by the Brown family when I first saw them all together in Cranford Church.
上尉我之前已经见过——那次是因为烟囱冒烟的事,他只是对烟道做了一点简单的改动便解决了问题。
The Captain I had met before—on the occasion of the smoky chimney, which he had cured by some simple alteration in the flue.
在教堂里,他在唱晨颂时举起双筒眼镜望着歌词,随后便抬起头,响亮而欢快地放声高歌。
In church, he held his double eye-glass to his eyes during the Morning Hymn, and then lifted up his head erect and sang out loud and joyfully.
他应答的声音比司事还要响亮——那位司事是个老人,声音尖细微弱,我想他对上尉那浑厚的低音颇为不满,因而便越唱越高,声调也越来越颤抖。
He made the responses louder than the clerk—an old man with a piping feeble voice, who, I think, felt aggrieved at the Captain's sonorous bass, and quivered higher and higher in consequence.
走出教堂时,这位精神抖擞的上尉对他的两个女儿殷勤备至。
On coming out of church, the brisk Captain paid the most gallant attention to his two daughters.
Vocabulary
- whether
- 连词,表示"是否",引导间接疑问
- pretty
- 形容词,指外貌好看、漂亮的
- everybody
- 代词,指所有人、每个人
- help
- 动词,此处指忍不住、无法避免
- dimples
- 名词复数,指脸颊上的酒窝
- jauntiness
- 名词,指轻快活泼、神气十足的气质
- gait
- 名词,指一个人走路的步态或姿势
- manner
- 名词,指举止、态度或行为方式
- female
- 形容词或名词,指女性的或女性
- observer
- 名词,指观察者、注意到某事的人
- might
- 情态动词,表示可能性,也许会
- detect
- 动词,指发现或察觉到细微之处
- slight
- 形容词,表示轻微的、细小的
- difference
- 名词,指两者之间的不同、差异
- attire
- 名词,指服装、穿着打扮
- Miss
- 称谓,用于未婚女性姓名前
- pounds
- 名词复数,英国货币单位英镑
- per
- 介词,表示每……,按……计算
- annum
- 名词,拉丁词,指每年、一年之内
- expensive
- 形容词,指花费多、价格高昂的
- sum
- 名词,指一笔钱款或总金额
- Captain
- 名词,指上尉或船长,此处为军衔称谓
- annual
- 形容词,指每年的、年度的
- disbursements
- 名词复数,指支出、花费的款项
- impression
- 名词,指对某人或某事的印象
- upon
- 介词,正式用法,意同on,表示"对"
- together
- 副词,表示一起、在一起
- Church
- 名词,指教堂或教会
- occasion
- 名词,指特定的场合或时机
- smoky
- 形容词,指充满烟雾的、冒烟的
- chimney
- 名词,指烟囱,建筑物排烟的管道
- cured
- 动词cure的过去式,此处指解决了问题
- alteration
- 名词,指改动、改变或修改
- flue
- 名词,指烟道,烟囱内部的通道
- double
- 形容词,表示双重的、两片的
- eye-glass
- 名词,指单片眼镜或夹鼻眼镜
- during
- 介词,表示在某段时间期间
- Hymn
- 名词,指赞美诗、圣歌
- lifted
- 动词lift的过去式,表示抬起
- erect
- 形容词,指笔直的、昂首挺胸的
- sang
- 动词sing的过去式,表示唱歌
- loud
- 形容词或副词,表示大声的
- joyfully
- 副词,表示高兴地、充满喜悦地
- responses
- 名词复数,指礼拜中的应答词
- louder
- 形容词比较级,表示声音更大
- clerk
- 名词,此处指教堂带领会众应答的执事
- piping
- 形容词,指细而尖的声音
- feeble
- 形容词,指虚弱的、无力的
- aggrieved
- 形容词,指感到委屈、愤愤不平的
- sonorous
- 形容词,指洪亮的、响亮的声音
- bass
- 名词,指男低音或低沉的声音
- quivered
- 动词quiver的过去式,指颤抖、发抖
- consequence
- 名词,此处指因此、作为结果
- brisk
- 形容词,指轻快的、精力充沛的
- gallant
- 形容词,指对女性殷勤有礼、英勇的
- attention
- 名词,指关注、注意或殷勤照顾
- daughters
- 名词复数,指女儿们
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