It was on the very next day after he had eased his mind by arriving at this decision, that the Major, sitting at his breakfast, saw an apparition so tremendous and wonderful in Miss Tox's little drawing-room, that he remained for some time rooted to his chair; then, rushing into the next room, returned with a double-barrelled opera-glass, through which he surveyed it intently for some minutes.
少校作出這個(gè)判斷，安下心來以后的第二天，正坐著吃早餐時(shí)，看到托克斯小姐的小客廳里出現(xiàn)了一個(gè)鬼怪，他是那么驚人，那么奇異，因此他坐在椅子里一直坐了好一會(huì)兒，然后才急忙跑到旁邊的房間，拿了一個(gè)雙筒的看戲用的小望遠(yuǎn)鏡回來；他通過望遠(yuǎn)鏡專心致志地察 看了好幾分鐘。
'It's a Baby, Sir,' said the Major, shutting up the glass again, 'for fifty thousand pounds!'
“這是個(gè)嬰孩，先生，”少校把望遠(yuǎn)鏡重新關(guān)上，說道，“我敢拿五萬五千鎊打賭！”
The Major couldn't forget it. He could do nothing but whistle, and stare to that extent, that his eyes, compared with what they now became, had been in former times quite cavernous and sunken. Day after day, two, three, four times a week, this Baby reappeared. The Major continued to stare and whistle. To all other intents and purposes he was alone in Princess's Place. Miss Tox had ceased to mind what he did. He might have been black as well as blue, and it would have been of no consequence to her.
少校不能忘記這件事情。他除了吹口哨和 把眼睛瞪得鼓鼓的之外，什么也干不了；如果跟他現(xiàn)在的眼睛相比，他以前的眼睛就顯得相當(dāng)凹陷和低洼了。一天又一天，這個(gè)嬰孩在一個(gè)星期之內(nèi)重新出現(xiàn)了兩次、三次、四次。少校繼續(xù)瞪眼睛和吹口哨。不論從哪一點(diǎn)來看，他在公主廣場(chǎng)上已是孤身一人了。托克斯小姐已不再關(guān)心他做什么了。如果他的臉色從青色轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)楹谏菍?duì)她也是一件無關(guān)緊要的事情。
The perseverance with which she walked out of Princess's Place to fetch this baby and its nurse, and walked back with them, and walked home with them again, and continually mounted guard over them; and the perseverance with which she nursed it herself, and fed it, and played with it, and froze its young blood with airs upon the harpsichord, was extraordinary. At about this same period too, she was seized with a passion for looking at a certain bracelet; also with a passion for looking at the moon, of which she would take long observations from her chamber window. But whatever she looked at; sun, moon, stars, or bracelet; she looked no more at the Major. And the Major whistled, and stared, and wondered, and dodged about his room, and could make nothing of it.
她堅(jiān)持不斷地走出公主廣場(chǎng)，去領(lǐng)這個(gè)嬰孩和他的保姆，和他們一起走回來，又和他們走回家去；而且經(jīng)常看守著他們；她堅(jiān)持不斷地親自照料孩子，喂他吃東西，和他玩耍，在大鍵琴上彈出曲調(diào)使他年輕的血液凝結(jié)；這種堅(jiān)持不斷、始終如一的精神是異乎尋常的。大約就在這同一時(shí)期中，她滿懷深情地看某一個(gè)手鐲；她也滿懷深情地看月亮，會(huì)從她房間的窗口長(zhǎng)久地觀望著它。但是不論她看什么，看太陽也好，看月亮也好，看星星或看手鐲也好，她卻不再看少校了。少校吹著口哨，瞪著眼睛，心中納悶，在房間里轉(zhuǎn)來轉(zhuǎn)去，但卻什么也弄不明白。
'You'll quite win my brother Paul's heart, and that's the truth, my dear,' said Mrs Chick, one day.
“您將會(huì)贏得我哥哥保羅的心，這是真的，我親愛的，”奇克夫人有一天說道。
Miss Tox turned pale.
托克斯小姐臉色變得蒼白。
'He grows more like Paul every day,' said Mrs Chick.
“他一天天長(zhǎng)得愈來愈像保羅了，”奇克夫人說道。
Miss Tox returned no other reply than by taking the little Paul in her arms, and making his cockade perfectly flat and limp with her caresses.
托克斯小姐沒有回答，只是把小保羅抱在懷中，撫摸著他帽上的花結(jié)，使它完全平展、柔軟。
注釋：1. apparition n. 幽靈；幻影；鬼怪；離奇出現(xiàn)的東西
例句：
(1). The power to live? Such a thing brought forth this apparition?
生命的力量？這樣一個(gè)東西帶來的就是這個(gè)幻象？
(2). The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.
人群中這些面孔幽靈一般顯現(xiàn)；濕漉漉的黝黑枝條上的許多花瓣。
(3). Vanish in dark, the empty apparition!
空虛的幻影，絕跡于黑暗之中！
(4). The apparition of these faces in the crowd.
人群中這些幽靈般閃現(xiàn)的面孔。
2. perseverance n. 堅(jiān)持不懈；不屈不撓
例句：
(1). There is a lesson in perseverance.
這種堅(jiān)毅的精神是值得學(xué)習(xí)的。
(2). Perseverance is the only road to success.
堅(jiān)定不移乃成功必由之路。
(3). He's a clever man but fails in perseverance.
他是個(gè)聰明人，但是缺乏毅力。
(4). He carried off the palm by sheer perseverance.
他全靠不屈不撓的精神獲得勝利。
(5). Perseverance is success through trial and error.
堅(jiān)持是不斷嘗試和犯錯(cuò)后的成功。
(6). Whoever wants to be a good mountain climber must learn patience, perseverance, and self-control.
無論誰想當(dāng)一名優(yōu)秀的爬山運(yùn)動(dòng)員，他必須學(xué)會(huì)有耐心、忍耐力和自控能力。
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