閱讀書目：《The Mysterious Affair at Styles》不定時更新
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Chapter 1：I Go to Styles（未更完）
單詞：
intense 十分強烈的 adj
at the time 在當時
subside 趨于平靜 v
Nevertheless 盡管如此 adv
in view of 考慮到
notoriety 臭名昭著 n
sensational 聳人聽聞的 adj
Convalescent 康復的 adj
run across 偶遇
for one thing 一方面
yarn 故事，奇談 n
autocratic 獨裁的 adj
ascendancy 優勢 n
relinquish 放棄 v
verse 詩 n
barrister (有資格出席高等法庭并辯護的）專門律師 n
congenial 適意的 adj
squire 鄉紳 n
shrewd 準確的 adj
ruefully 可憐地 adv
savagely 野蠻地 adv
jolly （強調）非常 adv
factotum 雜工 n
Jack of all trades 萬事通,指能夠做多種不同工作的人
句子：
He was a good fifteen years my senior, for one thing, though he hardly looked his forty-five years.
一方面，他比我整整大十五歲，雖然他看起來不像四十五歲的人。(a good fifteen years, 有意思，a加復數 )
The village of Styles St Mary was situated about two miles from the little station, and Styles Court lay a mile the other side of it.
斯泰爾斯圣瑪麗村距離小車站大約兩英里，斯泰爾斯法院在小車站的另一邊一英里處。（lay a mile ,the other side）
I shall never forget my first sight of Mary Cavendish. Her tall, slender form, outlined against the bright light; the vivid sense of slumbering fire that seemed to find expression only in those wonderful tawny eyes of hers, remarkable eyes, different from any other woman’s that I have ever known; the intense power of stillness she possessed, which nevertheless conveyed the impression of a wild untamed spirit in an exquisitely civilized body – all these things are burnt into my memory. I shall never forget them.
我永遠不會忘記第一眼看到瑪麗·卡文迪什的情景。在明亮的燈光下，她那修長的身軀顯得輪廓分明；那沉睡的火焰的生動感覺，似乎只表現在她那雙奇妙的茶色眼睛里，那雙不同于我所認識的任何別的女人的非凡的眼睛里；她所擁有的那種強烈的寧靜的力量，盡管如此，卻給人一種印象，那是一個野蠻的、未馴服的靈魂，藏在一個極其文明的身體里——所有這些都深深地烙在我的記憶里。我永遠不會忘記他們。
（真，長難句。不過這段我感覺超棒！阿婆的人物描寫太美啦，夠我好好學習。 ）
A lady in a stout tweed skirt, who was bending over a flower bed, straightened herself at our approach.
一位身穿粗花呢裙的女士，正俯身在花壇上，一見我們走近，便直起身子。
‘I’m sure I shall be only too delighted to make myself useful,’
“我相信我非常樂意為你效勞，”
‘Too fine a day to be cooped up in the house.’
天氣太好了，不能把自己關在屋里。(only too ...to 與 too...to 意思完全不一樣) |
