1.Near the house, Scarlett was at the point of speaking again when she saw her mother in the dim shadows of the porch.
【難句解析】on the point of “正要做某事”;
【句子翻譯】走近屋子時,思嘉正要開口說什么,忽然看見走廊暗影中的母親。
2.Ellen belonged to a generation that was formal even after seventeen years of wedlock and the bearing of six children—
【難句解析】此處bearing的意思是“生孩子”;
【句子翻譯】愛倫是地道的老一輩人,她盡管結(jié)結(jié)婚17年了,生育了六個孩子,可仍然講究禮節(jié);