War and Peace — Page 9
「帮我安排这件事,我将永远是你最忠诚的奴隶——奴隶这个词用f拼写,就像我的一个村长在报告中写的那样。她富有,出身名门,这就是我所要求的一切。」
"Arrange that affair for me and I shall always be your most devoted slave-slafe with an f, as a village elder of mine writes in his reports. She is rich and of good family and that's all I want."
他以特有的随意和优雅,将女侍从官的手举到唇边,轻吻了一下,然后将手来回摆动,自己则斜靠在扶手椅上,目光望向别处。
And with the familiarity and easy grace peculiar to him, he raised the maid of honor's hand to his lips, kissed it, and swung it to and fro as he lay back in his armchair, looking in another direction.
「请稍等,」安娜·帕芙洛夫娜沉思片刻说道,「我今晚就去找丽丝——小博尔孔斯基的妻子——谈谈,也许这件事可以安排妥当。我就以你们家族的名义,开始我这个老姑娘的学徒生涯吧。」
"Attendez," said Anna Pávlovna, reflecting, "I'll speak to Lise, young Bolkónski's wife, this very evening, and perhaps the thing can be arranged. It shall be on your family's behalf that I'll start my apprenticeship as old maid.
Vocabulary
- Arrange
- 安排、组织某事或某活动
- affair
- 事务、事情,通常指某件具体的事
- shall
- 将会,表示将来时或承诺
- always
- 总是、永远,表示持续不变
- devoted
- 忠诚的、全心全意奉献的
- slave
- 奴隶,完全服从于他人的人
- village
- 村庄,较小的农村居民聚居地
- elder
- 长者、年长者,村中有权威的人
- reports
- 报告、汇报,正式的书面或口头陈述
- rich
- 富有的,拥有大量财富的
- familiarity
- 熟悉感、随便亲近的态度或行为
- grace
- 优雅、风度,举止得体的气质
- peculiar
- 独特的、奇特的,与众不同的
- raised
- 举起、抬高某物
- maid
- 女仆、侍女,服侍他人的女性
- honor
- 荣誉、尊重,高尚的品德或地位
- lips
- 嘴唇,口部周围的肉质部分
- kissed
- 亲吻,用嘴唇轻触表示爱意
- swung
- swing的过去式,摆动、转动
- fro
- 向后,常与to连用表示来回摆动
- lay
- 躺、放置,处于水平位置
- armchair
- 扶手椅,带有两侧扶手的舒适椅子
- direction
- 方向,空间中某一特定的朝向
- reflecting
- 思考、沉思,仔细考虑某事
- perhaps
- 也许、可能,表示不确定的猜测
- arranged
- 被安排好的,已妥善组织完成的
- behalf
- 代表,以某人名义行事
- apprenticeship
- 学徒期,跟随师傅学习技能的阶段
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