Though he had suffered so much from the ridicule of his friends, Dirk Stroeve, eager for praise and naively self-satisfied, could never resist displaying his work. 虽然戴尔克施特略夫不断受到朋友们的嘲笑，却从来克制不了自己，...
I could imagine her sedately busy among her pots and pans, making a ritual of her household duties, so that they acquired a moral significance; 闭上眼睛我可以想象她在锅碗中间安详地忙碌着，象奉行仪式般地操持着一些家务...
When I told him that I meant to live in Paris for a while, and had taken an apartment, he reproached me bitterly for not having let him know. 当我告诉他我准备在巴黎住一段日子，而且寓所已经租好的时候，他使劲儿责备我没...
Chapter 19 第十九章 I had not announced my arrival to Stroeve, and when I rang the bell of his studio, on opening the door himself, for a moment he did not know me. 事先我没有告诉施特略夫我要到巴黎来。我按了门铃，开门的是...
Nature had made him a butt, but had denied him insensibility. 讲到施特略夫，一方面造物主把他制造成一个笑料，另一方面又拒绝给他迟钝的感觉。 He writhed under the jokes, practical and otherwise, which were perpetual...
I don't pretend to be a great painter, he said, I'm not a Michael Angelo, no, but I have something. 我知道自己不是个伟大的画家，他对我说，我不是米开朗基罗，不是的，但是我有自己的东西。 I sell. I bring romance...
Chapter 18 第十八章 In point of fact, I met Strickland before I had been a fortnight in Paris. 实际上，我在巴黎住了还不到两个星期就看到思特里克兰德了。 I quickly found myself a tiny apartment on the fifth floor of a ho...
She was a little ashamed of her courage and business capacity, but delighted that she was going to dine the next night with a K.C. who lived in South Kensington. 对自已经营打字行业的胆略和见识她不好意思多谈，但是一说起第二...
Chapter 17 第十七章 It was about five years after this that I decided to live in Paris for a while. 这件事过去大约五年之后，我决定到巴黎去住一个时期。 I was growing stale in London. I was tired of doing much the same thin...
Chapter 16 第十六章 What followed showed that Mrs. Strickland was a woman of character. 以后发生的事说明思特里克兰德太太是一个性格坚强的女人。 Whatever anguish she suffered she concealed. 不论她心里委屈多大，她...
