War and Peace — Page 2
姑妈用同样的话和每个人交谈,问起他们的健康状况和她自己的,还有女王陛下的健康,'感谢上帝,她今天好多了。'
The aunt spoke to each of them in the same words, about their health and her own, and the health of Her Majesty, "who, thank God, was better today."
每位来访者尽管出于礼貌不得不掩饰自己的不耐烦,却都带着完成了一件烦人差事后的如释重负离开了这位老妇人,整个晚上都没有再回到她身边。
And each visitor, though politeness prevented his showing impatience, left the old woman with a sense of relief at having performed a vexatious duty and did not return to her the whole evening.
年轻的包尔康斯卡娅公爵小姐带来了一只金线绣花丝绒手提袋,里面装着她的针线活。
The young Princess Bolkónskaya had brought some work in a gold-embroidered velvet bag.
她那可爱的小上唇上刚刚可以辨出一层细密的黑色绒毛,上唇略短,遮不住牙齿,但这反而使她的笑容更加甜美动人,尤其是当她偶尔将上唇轻轻下压与下唇相接时,更是别有一番魅力。
Her pretty little upper lip, on which a delicate dark down was just perceptible, was too short for her teeth, but it lifted all the more sweetly, and was especially charming when she occasionally drew it down to meet the lower lip.
正如一个极具魅力的女人往往如此,她的缺陷——上唇过短、嘴唇微微半开——反而成了她独特而专属的美丽之处。
As is always the case with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect—the shortness of her upper lip and her half-open mouth—seemed to be her own special and peculiar form of beauty.
每个人见到这位美丽的年轻女子都会精神为之一振——她即将为人母,充满生机与活力,却将这份负担承担得如此轻盈。
Everyone brightened at the sight of this pretty young woman, so soon to become a mother, so full of life and health, and carrying her burden so lightly.
那些年迈的老人和郁郁寡欢的年轻人,在与她相处片刻、稍作交谈之后,都感到自己仿佛也像她一样,重新充满了生机与活力。
Old men and dull dispirited young ones who looked at her, after being in her company and talking to her a little while, felt as if they too were becoming, like her, full of life and health.
所有与她交谈的人,每每看到她那灿烂的笑容和始终闪耀的洁白牙齿,都会觉得自己今天格外心情愉悦。
All who talked to her, and at each word saw her bright smile and the constant gleam of her white teeth, thought that they were in a specially amiable mood that day.
Vocabulary
- aunt
- 姑母、姨母等女性长辈亲属
- spoke
- speak的过去式,开口说话
- each
- 每一个,各自
- same
- 相同的,一样的
- words
- 话语,用词,言辞
- about
- 关于,涉及某话题
- health
- 健康状况,身体状态
- own
- 自己的,表示所属强调
- Majesty
- 陛下,对国王或女王的尊称
- thank
- 感谢,表示感激
- God
- 上帝,神;常用于感叹语
- better
- 更好的,身体状况有所好转
- visitor
- 访客,来访的人
- though
- 尽管,虽然,表示让步
- politeness
- 礼貌,有礼节的行为
- prevented
- 阻止,使某事无法发生
- showing
- 表现出,显示某种情绪或状态
- impatience
- 不耐烦,急躁的情绪
- left
- 离开,从某处离去
- woman
- 女人,成年女性
- sense
- 感觉,某种内心体验
- relief
- 如释重负,解脱的感觉
- performed
- 履行,完成某项任务或义务
- vexatious
- 令人烦恼的,令人恼火的
- duty
- 义务,职责,应尽的责任
- return
- 返回,回来
- whole
- 整个的,全部的
- evening
- 傍晚,晚上的时段
- young
- 年轻的,年纪小的
- Princess
- 公主,贵族女性称号
- brought
- bring的过去式,携带,带来
- work
- 此处指手工活,刺绣等女红
- gold-embroidered
- 用金线刺绣的,绣有金色图案的
- velvet
- 天鹅绒,一种柔软奢华的布料
- bag
- 袋子,手袋
- pretty
- 漂亮的,美观的
- upper
- 上方的,较高的
- lip
- 嘴唇,上唇或下唇
- delicate
- 细腻的,精致的,轻柔的
- dark
- 深色的,黑暗的
- down
- 此处指唇上细小的绒毛
- perceptible
- 可察觉的,能感知到的
- short
- 短的,不够长的
- teeth
- 牙齿,tooth的复数
- lifted
- 抬起,向上翘起
- sweetly
- 甜美地,可爱地
- especially
- 尤其,特别地
- charming
- 迷人的,令人着迷的
- occasionally
- 偶尔,有时候
- drew
- draw的过去式,拉近,移动
- meet
- 此处指上唇向下唇靠拢
- lower
- 较低的,下方的
- always
- 总是,永远
- case
- 情况,情形
- thoroughly
- 彻底地,完全地
- attractive
- 有吸引力的,迷人的
- defect
- 缺陷,缺点,不完美之处
- shortness
- 短小,不够长的特质
- half-open
- 半张开的,微微开启的
- mouth
- 嘴,口
- seemed
- seem的过去式,似乎,好像
- special
- 特别的,独特的
- peculiar
- 独特的,与众不同的
- form
- 形式,一种表现方式
- beauty
- 美丽,美的特质
- Everyone
- 每个人,所有人
- brightened
- 变得欢快,神情为之一振
- sight
- 看见,目睹,视线所及
- soon
- 即将,不久之后
- become
- 成为,变成
- mother
- 母亲,妈妈
- full
- 充满的,充实的
- life
- 生命,生机,活力
- carrying
- 承受,携带,负担某种状态
- burden
- 负担,重担
- lightly
- 轻松地,不以为重地
- men
- 男人们,man的复数
- dull
- 沉闷的,无精打采的
- dispirited
- 意志消沉的,失去精神的
- looked
- 注视,看向某人或某处
- company
- 陪伴,在场,与人相处
- talking
- 交谈,说话
- while
- 一会儿,一段时间
- felt
- feel的过去式,感到,感觉
- becoming
- 变得,渐渐成为某种状态
- talked
- 交谈,说话的过去式
- word
- 此处指某个特定词语或话题
- saw
- see的过去式,看见,看到
- bright
- 明亮的,灿烂的
- smile
- 微笑,笑容
- constant
- 持续的,不断的
- gleam
- 闪光,光亮,微微发光
- white
- 白色的,洁白的
- thought
- 认为,想到,think的过去式
- specially
- 特别地,格外地
- amiable
- 和蔼可亲的,令人愉快的
- mood
- 心情,情绪状态
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