As between the two men, Michaelis really had far more use for her than Clifford had. He had even more need of her. Any good nurse can attend to crippled legs! And as for the heroic effort, Michaelis was a heroic rat, and Clifford was very much of a poodle showing off.

在这两个男人中间,她对于蔑克里斯是较有用处的。而他比克利福也更需要她,因为任何一个好看护都能看护一个两腿风瘫的人!如果拿他们所做的英雄事业来说。蔑克里斯是个英雄的老鼠,而克利福只是个玩把戏的小狗。

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Connie liked her, she was so perfectly simple and [rank, as far as she intended to be frank, and superficially kind. Inside herself she was a past-mistress in holding her own, and holding other people a little lower.

康妮很喜欢她。当她愿意的时候,她是这样的简单率直,而且外表上是这样慈蔼。其实她对于守着她的地位,而且守到比他人高一点的它术上,她是个能手。

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The days seemed to grind by, with curious painfulness, yet nothing happened. Only she was getting thinner; even the housekeeper noticed it, and asked her about herself Even Tommy Dukes insisted she was not well, though she said she was all right.

日子好像发着咬牙声似地过去,使她痛苦,却毫无新的东西来到,她渐渐地消瘦了。甚至又管家也注意到了,问她是不是有什么不舒服,甚至唐米·督克斯也重复说她的身体日见不好,虽然她并承认。

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The bristling of the hideous false teeth of tombstones on the hill affected her with a grisly kind of horror. She felt the time not far off when she would be buried there, added to the ghastly host under the tombstones and the monuments, in these filthy Midlands.

这些假牙似的丑恶的墓石,耸立在那小山上,难她一种阴森的恐怖,她觉得她不久便要被埋葬在那儿,加入那墓石和墓碑下的鬼群中,在这污秽的米德兰地方。

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Down posted Hilda from Scotland, where she had taken up her abode. She came in March, alone, driving herself in a nimble two-seater. Up the drive she came, tooting up the incline, then sweeping round the oval of grass, where the two great wild beech-trees stood, on the flat in front of the house.

希尔达从苏格兰赶了来。那是三月时候,她自己驶着一部两入座的轻便小汽车。响着喇叭,沿着马路驶了上来,然后绕着屋前面的有两株山毛榉树的那块椭圆形的草坪。

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She was always urging her ladyship to walk out, to drive to Uthwaite, to be in the air. For Connie had got into the habit of sitting still by the fire, pretending to read; or to sew feebly, and hardly going out at all.

她常常劝男爵夫人出去散步,乘汽车到由斯魏特走走去,到新鲜空气里去,因为康妮已经成了个习惯,整天坐在火旁边。假装着看书,或做着活计,差不多不出门了。

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And the keeper, his thin, white body, like a lonely pistil of an invisible flower! She had forgotten him in her unspeakable depression. But now something roused...`Pale beyond porch and portal'...the thing to do was to pass the porches and the portals.

而那个守猎人!他的纤细的白皙的身体,象是一枝肉眼不能见的花朵里的孤寂的花心!她在极度的颓丧抑郁中竟把他忘记了,但是现在什么东西在醒转了……幽暗地,在门廊与大门的那边……所要做的,但是通过那些门廊与大门。

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She wanted to forget, to forget the world, and all the dreadful, carrion-bodied people.

她要忘记,忘记世界和所有可怖的行尸走肉的人们

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Little gusts of sunshine blew, strangely bright, and lit up the celandines at the wood's edge, under the hazel-rods, they spangled out bright and yellow. And the wood was still, stiller, but yet gusty with crossing sun.

一阵阵的阳光乍明乍暗,奇异的光辉,林边棱树下的毛莫草,在阳光照耀下,好像金叶似的闪着黄光,树林里寂静着,这样地寂静着,但给一阵阵的阳光照得惴惴不安

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But it was the breath of Persephone, this time; she was out of hell on a cold morning. Cold breaths of wind came, and overhead there was an anger of entangled wind caught among the twigs.

但是这一天,那却是珀耳塞福涅的呼吸;她在一个寒冷的早晨,从地狱中走了出来,一阵阵的风呵着冷气,在头顶上,那纠缠在树枝间的乱风在愤怒着。

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