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The party were expected to arrive on Thursday afternoon, in time for dinner at six.
這批客人預(yù)計(jì)星期四下午到達(dá)，趕上六點(diǎn)鐘吃晚飯。
During the intervening period I had no time to nurse chimeras.
在等待期間我沒有工夫去胡思亂想了。
And I believe I was as active and gay as anybody -- Adèle excepted.
我想我跟其他人一樣賣力、一樣高興--阿黛勒除外。
Still, now and then, I received a damping check to my cheerfulness,
不過我時(shí)時(shí)會(huì)感到掃興，
and was, in spite of myself, thrown back on the region of doubts and portents, and dark conjectures.
情不自禁地回想起那些疑惑、兇兆和不祥的猜測(cè)。
This was when I chanced to see the third-storey staircase door (which of late had always been kept locked) open slowly,
那就是當(dāng)我偶爾看到三樓樓梯的門慢悠悠地打開（近來常常鎖著），
and give passage to the form of Grace Poole, in prim cap, white apron, and handkerchief.
格雷斯·普爾戴著整潔的帽子，系著圍裙，揣著手帕。
When I watched her glide along the gallery, her quiet tread muffled in a list slipper.
從那里經(jīng)過時(shí)。我瞧著她溜過走廊，穿著布拖鞋，腳步聲減低到很輕很輕。
When I saw her look into the bustling, topsy-turvy bedrooms, just say a word, perhaps,
我看見她往鬧哄哄亂糟糟的臥房里瞧了一瞧，只不過說一兩句話，
to the charwoman about the proper way to polish a grate, or clean a marble mantelpiece,
也許是給打雜女工們交代恰當(dāng)?shù)那鍜叻椒ǎ喝绾尾翣t柵，如何清理大理石壁爐架，
or take stains from papered walls, and then pass on.
要不如何從糊了墻紙的墻上把緞子取下。說完便又往前走了。
She would thus descend to the kitchen once a day, eat her dinner, smoke a moderate pipe on the hearth,
她一天下樓到廚房里走一次，來吃飯，在爐邊有節(jié)制地吸一煙斗煙，
and go back, carrying her pot of porter with her, for her private solace, in her own gloomy, upper haunt.
隨后就返回，帶上一罐黑啤酒，在樓上陰暗的巢穴里獨(dú)自消遣。
Only one hour in the twenty-four did she pass with her fellow-servants below.
一天二十四小時(shí)中，她只有一小時(shí)同樓下別的傭人呆在一起，
All the rest of her time was spent in some low-ceiled, oaken chamber of the second storey.
其余時(shí)間是在三層樓上某個(gè)橡木臥室低矮的天花板下度過的。
There she sat and sewed — and probably laughed drearily to herself, as companionless as a prisoner in his dungeon.
她坐在那里做著針線活 — 也許還兀自凄楚地大笑起來——像監(jiān)獄里的犯人一樣無人作伴。
