Great Expectations — Page 1
我姐姐，乔·盖杰里太太，比我年长二十多岁，她靠着"亲手"把我带大，在自己和邻居们之间赢得了极高的声誉。
My sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than I, and had established a great reputation with herself and the neighbours because she had brought me up "by hand."
那时我得自己去弄清楚这个说法是什么意思，而我知道她的手又硬又重，不仅常常落在我身上，也常常落在她丈夫身上，所以我觉得乔·盖杰里和我都是被"亲手"管教大的。
Having at that time to find out for myself what the expression meant, and knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand, and to be much in the habit of laying it upon her husband as well as upon me, I supposed that Joe Gargery and I were both brought up by hand.
我姐姐长得并不好看；我总有一种印象，她大概是用强硬手段逼着乔·盖杰里娶了她。
She was not a good-looking woman, my sister; and I had a general impression that she must have made Joe Gargery marry her by hand.
乔是个面容白净的男人，光滑的脸庞两侧各垂着一缕亚麻色的卷发，眼睛是一种极不确定的蓝色，仿佛不知怎的和眼白混在了一起。
Joe was a fair man, with curls of flaxen hair on each side of his smooth face, and with eyes of such a very undecided blue that they seemed to have somehow got mixed with their own whites.
他性情温和，为人善良，脾气好，随和，有些憨傻，却是个可爱的人——力气大得像赫拉克勒斯，软弱处也像他一样。
He was a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easy-going, foolish, dear fellow,—a sort of Hercules in strength, and also in weakness.
我姐姐乔太太生着黑发黑眼，皮肤红得出奇，我有时不禁纳闷，她洗脸是不是用肉豆蔻磨碎器代替肥皂。
My sister, Mrs. Joe, with black hair and eyes, had such a prevailing redness of skin that I sometimes used to wonder whether it was possible she washed herself with a nutmeg-grater instead of soap.
她身材高挑，骨架宽大，几乎总是围着一条粗布围裙，在背后用两个环扣系住，前面还有一块方形的硬挺护胸，上面插满了别针和缝针。
She was tall and bony, and almost always wore a coarse apron, fastened over her figure behind with two loops, and having a square impregnable bib in front, that was stuck full of pins and needles.
Vocabulary
- sister
- 姐姐或妹妹，女性兄弟姐妹
- Mrs.
- 已婚女性的尊称，相当于"太太"
- established
- 建立、确立某种声誉或地位
- reputation
- 名声，声誉，他人对某人的评价
- neighbours
- 邻居，住在附近的人
- expression
- 表达，措辞，词语的含义
- hard
- 坚硬的，严厉的，有力的
- heavy
- 沉重的，有分量的，厚重的
- habit
- 习惯，惯常的行为方式
- laying
- lay的现在分词，放置，施加
- upon
- 介词，在……上面，施加于
- husband
- 丈夫，已婚女性的配偶
- supposed
- 认为，推测，suppose的过去式
- good-looking
- 外貌好看的，漂亮的
- general
- 总体的，一般的，大致的
- impression
- 印象，某人或某物给人的感受
- marry
- 结婚，与某人成婚
- fair
- 肤色白皙的，外表好看的
- curls
- 卷发，呈卷曲状的发型
- flaxen
- 亚麻色的，浅黄色的（多指头发）
- smooth
- 光滑的，平整的，无皱纹的
- undecided
- 不确定的，模糊的，不鲜明的
- somehow
- 不知何故，以某种方式，莫名其妙
- mixed
- 混合的，混在一起的
- whites
- 眼白，眼睛白色部分
- mild
- 温和的，温顺的，不强烈的
- good-natured
- 性情和善的，友好温厚的
- sweet-tempered
- 脾气温柔和蔼的，性情好的
- easy-going
- 随和的，不计较的，好相处的
- foolish
- 愚蠢的，缺乏判断力的
- fellow
- 家伙，人，同伴（口语用法）
- Hercules
- 赫拉克勒斯，希腊神话中的大力士
- strength
- 力量，力气，强壮的程度
- weakness
- 软弱，弱点，缺乏力量或意志
- prevailing
- 占主导的，最常见的，主要的
- redness
- 红色，皮肤发红的状态
- wonder
- 想知道，感到好奇，疑惑
- whether
- 是否，引导间接疑问句
- possible
- 可能的，有可能实现的
- nutmeg-grater
- 磨肉豆蔻的磨碎器，表面粗糙
- instead
- 代替，而不是，作为替代
- soap
- 肥皂，用于清洁的洗涤用品
- bony
- 骨感的，骨瘦如柴的
- coarse
- 粗糙的，质地粗劣的
- apron
- 围裙，穿在衣服外的保护布
- fastened
- fasten的过去式，系紧，扣住
- figure
- 身材，体形，人的外形
- loops
- 环，圈，绕成圈的带子
- impregnable
- 牢不可破的，坚不可摧的，无法穿透的
- bib
- 围嘴，围裙上半部分的挡布
- stuck
- stick的过去式，插满，扎满
- pins
- 大头针，别针，细尖的固定物
- needles
- 缝纫针，细长尖锐的缝纫工具
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