1.She had never seen her mother stirred from her austere placidity, nor her personal appointments anything but perfect, no matter what the hour of day or night.

【難句解析】anything but “根本不”，句子是雙重否定，表肯定；

【句子翻譯】思嘉從未見過母親莊重安謙的神態(tài)被打擾的時(shí)候，她個(gè)人的衣著也總是那么整整嬤嬤，無論白天黑夜都毫無二致。

2.It had always been so soothing to Scarlett to hear her mother whisper, firmly but compassionately, as she tiptoed down the hall: “Hush, not so loudly. You will wake Mr. O’Hara. They are not sick enough to die.”

【難句解析】smoothing形容詞，意思是“安慰人的”；tiptoe down “踮著腳尖走下...”; not…enough to…，在此結(jié)構(gòu)里，enough前可以是形容詞或副詞，to…是動(dòng)詞不定式，注意與too...to...的區(qū)別，后者中，too是副詞，修飾形容詞，to…是動(dòng)詞不定式；

【句子翻譯】思嘉聽到母親踮著腳尖輕輕走過廳堂，并堅(jiān)定而憐憫地低聲說：“噓，別這么大聲說話。會(huì)吵醒奧哈拉先生的。他們還不至于病得要死吧。"此時(shí)，她總有一種安慰的感覺。