Tiareher father had called her by the name of the white, scented flower which, they tell you, if you have once smelt, 蒂阿瑞这是一种香气芬芳的白花，她父亲给她起的名字。这里的人说，只要你闻过这种花香， will alw...
She was the best cook on the island, and she adored good food. 她是岛上最好的厨师，对美馔佳肴有很深的爱好。 From morning till night you saw her sitting on a low chair in the kitchen, surrounded by a Chinese cook and two or three...
Chapter 49 第四十九章 I lived at the Hotel de la Fleur, and Mrs. Johnson, the proprietress, had a sad story to tell of lost opportunity. 我住在鲜花旅馆，旅馆的女主人，约翰生太太给我讲了一个悲惨的故事她如何把大好...
What was it like? I asked. 他画得怎么样？我问。 Do not ask me. I could not make head or tail of it. I never saw such a thing in my life. 'What shall we do with it?' I said to my wife. 别问我这个，我一点也看不懂。我活了一辈子...
You see, I was interested in him because he was a painter, he told me.? 你知道，我对他感兴趣是因为他是个画家，他对我说， We don't get many painters in the islands, and I was sorry for him because he was such a bad one. 很少有...
Those that I have now are fragmentary. 我掌握的事实只是一些断简残篇。 I am in the position of a biologist who from a single bone must reconstruct not only the appearance of an extinct animal, but its habits. 我的处境很象一个生物...
Chapter 48 第四十八章 It is here that I purposed to end my book. 这本书我本来准备就写到这里为止。 My first idea was to begin it with the account of Strickland's last years in Tahiti and with his horrible death, 我最初的计划是...
I guess you'd better get out of Marseilles before Tough Bill comes out of hospital, 我看在硬汉子彼尔出院以前，你还是离开马赛吧， he said to Strickland, when they had got back to the Chink's Head and were cleaning themselves. 当他...
In the bar in which Strickland and Nichols sat a mechanical piano was loudly grinding out dance music. 在思特里克兰德和尼柯尔斯坐的酒吧间里摆着一架自动钢琴，机械地演奏着喧噪聒耳的舞曲。 Round the room people w...
One night Captain Nichols and Strickland were sitting in one of the bars of the Rue Bouterie. 一天晚上，尼柯尔斯船长和思特里克兰德正坐在布特里路的一家酒吧间里。 The Rue Bouterie is a narrow street of one-storeyed hous...
