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The communications were renewed from day to day.
談話一天天繼續(xù)著。
They always ran on the same theme -- herself, her loves, and woes.
始終圍繞著一個(gè)主題--她自己，她的愛情和苦惱。
It was strange she never once adverted either to her mother's illness, or her brother 's death,
很奇怪，她一次也沒有提到母親的病和哥哥的死，
or the present gloomy state of the family prospects.
也沒有說起眼下一家的暗淡前景。
Her mind seemed wholly taken up with reminiscences of past gaiety, and aspirations after dissipations to come.
她似乎滿腦子都是對(duì)昔曰歡樂的回憶和對(duì)未來放蕩的向往。
She passed about five minutes each day in her mother's sick-room, and no more.
每天在她母親的病榻前只呆上五分鐘。
Eliza still spoke little. She had evidently no time to talk.
伊麗莎依然不大開口。顯然她沒有工夫說話。
I never saw a busier person than she seemed to be, yet it was difficult to say what she did,
我從來沒有見過一位象她看上去那么忙的人，可是很難說她在忙些什么，
or rather, to discover any result of her diligence.
或者不如說很難發(fā)現(xiàn)她忙碌的結(jié)果。
She had an alarm to call her up early.
她有一個(gè)鬧鐘催她早起。
I know not how she occupied herself before breakfast,
我不知道早飯前她干些什么，
but after that meal she divided her time into regular portions, and each hour had its allotted task.
但飯后她把自己的時(shí)間分成固定的部分，每個(gè)小時(shí)都有規(guī)定的任務(wù)。
Three times a day she studied a little book, which I found, on inspection, was a Common Prayer Book.
她一天三次研讀一本小書，我仔細(xì)一看，原來是本祈禱書。
I asked her once what was the great attraction of that volume, and she said, "the Rubric."
一次我問她，書中最吸引人的是什么，她說“儀式指示?！?/div>
Three hours she gave to stitching, with gold thread, the border of a square crimson cloth, almost large enough for a carpet.
三個(gè)小時(shí)用于縫紉，用金線給一塊方形紅布上邊，這塊布足有地毯那么大。
In answer to my inquiries after the use of this article,
我問起它的用途，
she informed me it was a covering for the altar of a new church lately erected near Gateshead.
她告訴我是蓋在一個(gè)新教堂祭壇上的罩布，這個(gè)教堂新近建于蓋茨黑德附近。
