The reader has not, perhaps, forgotten that one moment before catching sight of the nocturnal band of vagabonds, Quasimodo, as he inspected Paris from the heights of his bell tower...
As soon as Pierre Gringoire had seen how this whole affair was turning, and that there would decidedly be the rope, hanging, and other disagreeable things for the principal persona...
WHILE AWAITING THE ANNOUNCEMENT of his name having been put on the committee, Prince Andrey looked up old acquaintances, especially among those persons whom he knew to be in power,...
SPILLED LIKE WATER ON THE GROUND. 洒落在地上,恰如水一样。 The trap passed the fireman who stood sentinel at the entrance, [the headquarters of the fire brigade and the police stations are...
Last AdieuxAn hour later, when he was fast asleep, he was awakened by the tearswhich he felt trickling over his hand. — 最后的告别 — ‘Ah! Mathilde again,’ he thought tohimself, half ...
A Man of PowerBut there is such mystery in her movements, such elegance in herform. Who can she be? 一个权力的人 SCHILLERThe doors of the dungeon were thrown open at a very early hou...
The priest whom the young girls had observed at the top of the North tower, leaning over the Place and so attentive to the dance of the gypsy, was, in fact, Archdeacon Claude Froll...
Part 1 Book 1 Chapter 1 M. Myriel(缪雷尔):在1815年,查尔斯·弗朗索瓦·比耶纽·米列尔(M. Myriel)成为D教区的主教,年约75岁,自1806年起担任该职位。他出身贵族家庭,父为普阿尔议会的议员,早婚,曾以风流倜傥、风度翩翩著称。经历法国大革命,随夫人赴意大利,夫人去世,无子女。回国后成为神父,逐渐被人了解。曾在...
When I was twenty-seven years old, I was a mining-broker’s clerk in San Francisco, and an expert in all the details of stock traffic. — 当我二十七岁时,我是旧金山的一名矿业经纪人办事员,精通股票交易的所有细节。 — I...
There were seventeen officers in all riding in this race. — 这场比赛一共有十七名军官参加。 — The race course was a large three-mile ring of the form of an ellipse in front of the pavilion. — 比...