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"The van der Luydens," said Archer, feeling himself pompous as he spoke, "are the most powerful influence in New York society. Unfortunately--owing to her health--they receive very seldom."
阿切爾自命不凡地說：“范德盧頓夫婦是紐約上流社會最有影響的人物。不幸的是——由于她的健康原因——他們極少接待客人。”
She unclasped her hands from behind her head, and looked at him meditatively.
她松開腦袋后面的兩只手，沉思地看著他。
"Isn't that perhaps the reason?"
“也許正是這個原因吧？”
"The reason--?"
“原因——？”
"For their great influence; that they make themselves so rare."
“他們有巨大影響的原因啊；他們故意很少露面。”
He coloured a little, stared at her--and suddenly felt the penetration of the remark. At a stroke she had pricked the van der Luydens and they collapsed. He laughed, and sacrificed them.
他臉色有點(diǎn)發(fā)紅，瞪大眼睛看著她——猛然頓悟了這句話的洞察力。經(jīng)她輕輕一擊，范德盧頓夫婦便垮臺了。他放聲大笑，把他們做了犧牲品。
Nastasia brought the tea, with handleless Japanese cups and little covered dishes, placing the tray on a low table.
納斯塔西婭送來了茶水，還有無柄的日本茶杯和小蓋碟。她把茶盤放在一張矮桌上。
"But you'll explain these things to me--you'll tell me all I ought to know," Madame Olenska continued, leaning forward to hand him his cup.
“不過你要向我解釋所有這些事情——你要告訴我我應(yīng)了解的全部情況，”奧蘭斯卡夫人接著說，一面向前探探身子，遞給他茶杯。
"It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them."
“現(xiàn)在是你在開導(dǎo)我，讓我睜開眼睛認(rèn)清那些我看得太久因而不能認(rèn)清的事物。”
She detached a small gold cigarette-case from one of her bracelets, held it out to him, and took a cigarette herself. On the chimney were long spills for lighting them.
她取下一個小小的金煙盒，向他遞過去，她自己也拿了一支香煙。煙囪上放著點(diǎn)煙的長引柴。
"Ah, then we can both help each other. But I want help so much more. You must tell me just what to do."
“啊，那么我們兩人可以互相幫助了。不過更需要幫助的是我，你一定要告訴我該做些什么。”
It was on the tip of his tongue to reply: "Don't be seen driving about the streets with Beaufort--" but he was being too deeply drawn into the atmosphere of the room, which was her atmosphere, and to give advice of that sort would have been like telling some one who was bargaining for attar-of-roses in Samarkand that one should always be provided with arctics for a New York winter. New York seemed much farther off than Samarkand, and if they were indeed to help each other she was rendering what might prove the first of their mutual services by making him look at his native city objectively. Viewed thus, as through the wrong end of a telescope, it looked disconcertingly small and distant; but then from Samarkand it would.
他差一點(diǎn)就要回答：“不要讓人見到你跟博福特一起坐車逛街——”然而他此刻已被屋子里的氣氛深深吸引住了，這是屬于她的氣氛，他如果提出這樣的建議，就好像告訴一個正在薩馬爾罕討價還價買玫瑰油的人，在紐約過冬需要配備橡皮套靴。此刻，紐約似乎比薩馬爾罕遠(yuǎn)多了。而假如真的要互相幫助，那么，她就應(yīng)該向他提供互相幫助的證據(jù)，先幫他客觀地看待他的出生地。這樣就像從望遠(yuǎn)鏡的反端觀察，紐約顯得異常渺小與遙遠(yuǎn)；不過，站到薩馬爾罕那邊看，情況就是如此。
A flame darted from the logs and she bent over the fire, stretching her thin hands so close to it that a faint halo shone about the oval nails. The light touched to russet the rings of dark hair escaping from her braids, and made her pale face paler.
一片火焰從木柴中躍起，她朝爐火彎了彎身，把瘦削的雙手伸得離火很近，一團(tuán)淡淡的光暈閃爍在她那橢圓的指甲周圍。亮光使她發(fā)辮上散逸出的淺黑色發(fā)鬈變成了黃褐色，并使她蒼白的臉色更加蒼白。
