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"You are very hungry," he said.
“你很餓，”他說。
"I am, sir." It is my way -- it always was my way, by instinct
“是的，先生?！边@是我的習慣--向來的習慣，完全是直覺，
ever to meet the brief with brevity, the direct with plainness.
簡問簡答，直問直說。
"It is well for you that a low fever has forced you to abstain for the last three days:
“幸好三天來的低燒迫使你禁食，
there would have been danger in yielding to the cravings of your appetite at first.
要是一開始便放開肚子吃就危險了。
Now you may eat, though still not immoderately."
現在你可以吃了，不過還是得節制。”
"I trust I shall not eat long at your expense, sir," was my very clumsily-contrived, unpolished answer.
“我相信不會花你的錢吃得很久的，先生，”這是我笨嘴笨舌、粗里粗氣的回答。
"No," he said coolly: "when you have indicated to us the residence of your friends,
“不，”他冷冷地說：“等你把朋友的住址告訴我們后，
we can write to them, and you may be restored to home."
我們可以寫信給他們，你就又可以回家了?！?/p>
"That, I must plainly tell you, is out of my power to do; being absolutely without home and friends."
“我得直率地告訴你們，我沒有能力這么做，因為我既沒有家，也沒有朋友?！?/div>
The three looked at me, but not distrustfully;
三位都看著我，但并非不信任。
I felt there was no suspicion in their glances: there was more of curiosity.
我覺得他們的眼神里沒有懷疑的表情，而更多的是好奇。
I speak particularly of the young ladies.
我尤其指小姐們。
St. John's eyes, though clear enough in a literal sense, in a figurative one were difficult to fathom.
圣·約翰的眼晴表面看來相當明凈，但實際上深不可測。
He seemed to use them rather as instruments to search other people's thoughts, than as agents to reveal his own:
他似乎要把它用作探測別人思想的工具，而不是暴露自己內心的窗口。
the which combination of keenness and reserve was considerably more calculated to embarrass than to encourage.
眼神里熱情與冷漠的交融，很大程度上不是為了鼓勵別人，而是要使人感到窘迫。
