50 GREAT SHORT STORIES·《Putois》

文章来源：《50 GREAT SHORT STORIES》

作者：Anatole France

• stride 大步走 → in twenty strides 二十步以内

• smiling as was her wont，with lips compressed 像她惯常般微笑着，双唇紧闭

  wont 习惯

• needlework 针线活

• Why，of all the figures which pass before my childhood's eyes,that of Putois remains the clearest in my memory. 在我童年眼前闪过的所有人物里，为什么Putois在我印象里最清楚。

• Then, antiphonally, in a monotonous voice, with mock gravity, the brother and sister recited the following points of a kind of police description.  然后，兄妹二人用单调的声音，假装严肃地异口同声地用警方描述的方式，一一列举了以下几点。

  antiphonallu 齐声地

  monotonous 单调的，沉闷的，无变化的

  gravity 严肃 → mock gravity 假装严肃

  recite 背诵，列举，历数

• wall-eyed 斜视的

• furtive 鬼鬼祟祟的 → furtive looking 偷偷摸摸的样子

• A crow's foot on his temple. 他太阳穴上有鱼尾纹。

  a crow's foot 鱼尾纹

  temple 太阳穴

• High cheek-bones, red and shiny. 高颧骨，红润有光泽。

• His face was blank and expressionless. 他面无表情。

• divine 猜到；领悟

• bent 驼背的

• franc 法郎 → piece 硬币 → a five-franc piece 一枚五法郎的硬币

• drawl 拖长腔调慢吞吞说的话 → speak with a drawl 说话拖拖拉拉

• His tone was unctuous. 他的语气油腔滑调。

  unctuous 虚情假意的