An excitable conchologist would surely have fainted dead away before other, more numerous glass cases in which were classified specimens from the mollusk branch. 一位神经稍微锐敏一点的贝壳类专家,到了另一些陈列软体类动物标...
In the first group: organ-pipe coral, gorgonian coral arranged into fan shapes, soft sponges from Syria, isis coral from the Molucca Islands, sea-pen coral, wonderful coral of the genus Virgularia from the waters of Norway, various coral of the genus...
In the middle of the lounge, a jet of water, electrically lit, fell back into a basin made from a single giant clam. 在大厅中间,有一个喷泉。水受电光的照耀,重又落在单由一片大贝壳制成的环形水池中。 The delicate...
These composers, Captain Nemo answered me, are the contemporaries of Orpheus, because in the annals of the dead, all chronological differences fade; 尼摩船长回答我:这些音乐家是俄尔甫斯的同时代人,因为在死者的记忆中,年...
Professor, this strange man then said, you must excuse the informality with which I receive you, and the disorder reigning in this lounge. 教授,这个古怪人说,请您原谅我这样毫不客气地在这里接待您,请您原谅这所客厅乱...
The various schools of the old masters were represented by a Raphael Madonna, a Virgin by Leonardo da Vinci, 历代各家大师的作品挂在这里的有:拉斐尔的一幅圣母,达芬奇的一幅圣女, a nymph by Correggio, a woman by Titia...
It was a huge quadrilateral with canted corners, ten meters long, six wide, five high. 这客厅是一个长方形的大房间,长十米,宽六米,高五米, A luminous ceiling, decorated with delicate arabesques, distributed a soft, clear da...
I took the cigar offered me, whose shape recalled those from Cuba; but it seemed to be made of gold leaf. 我接过他给我的雪茄烟,形状有点像哈瓦那制的伦敦式雪茄,烟叶也似乎是上等的金色烟叶。 I lit it at a small...
Accordingly, three years ago at the most, Captain Nemo had begun his underwater existence. 这样说来,尼摩船长开始他的海底生活,至多不过三年。 Moreover, I hoped some books even more recent would permit me to pinpoint the date...
Books on mechanics, ballistics, hydrography, meteorology, geography, geology, etc., held a place there no less important than works on natural history, and I realized that they made up the captain's chief reading. 机械学、弹道学、海洋绘图学...