When Pencroft had once got a plan in his head, he had no peace till it was executed. — 当彭克罗夫一旦有了一个计划,他就无法安宁,直到实施。 — Now he wished to visit Tabor Island, and as a boat of a cert...
What does it mean then, what can it all mean? — 那意味着什么呢,这一切到底意味着什么? — Lily Briscoe asked herself,wondering whether, since she had been left alone, it behoved her to go tothe kit...
We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; — 我们经常听到黑奴仆人失去慈祥主人后的悲伤; — and with good reason, for no creature on God’s earth is left more ut...
The weather changed during the first week of March. There had been a full moon at the commencement of the month, and the heat was excessive. — 三月初的第一周天气变化了。月初时是满月,气温异常高。 — The ...
Now this ambergris is a very curious substance, and so important as an article of commerce, that in 1791 a certain Nantucket-born Captain Coffin was examined at the bar of the Engl...
Week after week glided away in the St. Clare mansion, and the waves of life settled back to their usual flow, where that little bark had gone down. — 在圣克莱尔庄园中,一个星期又一个星期平稳地过去了,生活的波...
The first week of January was devoted to the manufacture of the linen garments required by the colony. — 一月的第一周被用来制作殖民地所需的亚麻衣物。 — The needles found in the box were used by stur...
The settlers in Lincoln Island had now regained their dwelling, without having been obliged to reach it by the old opening, and were therefore spared the trouble of mason’s work. —...
First Appearance in SocietyAbsurd and touching memory: — 第一次出现在社交场合荒谬而感人的回忆: — one’s first appearance, at eighteen,alone and unsupported, in a drawing-room! — 十八岁时第一次独自出现在一个客厅...
Now, in 1482, Quasimodo had grown up. He had become a few years previously the bellringer of Notre-Dame, thanks to his father by adoption, Claude Frollo,–who had become archdeacon ...