She was the golden thread that united him to a past beyond his misery , and to a present beyond his misery : and the sound of her voice , the light of her face , the touch of her hand , had a strong beneficial influence with him almost always 她是一条金色的丝线，把他跟受难以前的历史连结在一起，也把他跟受难以后的现在连结在一起：她说话的声音她面颊的光辉她双手的触摸，几乎对他永远有一种有利的影响。
She is older than the rocks among which she sits , like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a driver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with eastern merchhants , and , as leda , was the mother of helen of troy , and , as saint anne , the mother of mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has molded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands 她比她所坐的岩石更古老；像吸血鬼，她死过多次，懂得坟墓里的秘密；曾经潜入深海，记得海沉的往日；曾同东方商人交易，买过奇异的网；作为丽达，是海伦的母亲，作为圣?安尼，又是玛丽的母亲；而这一切对她又像竖琴和横笛的乐音，只存在于一种微妙的情调上，表现于她生动的面目和她眼睑和双手的色调。
Tess , like her compeers , soon discovered which of the cows had a preference for her style of manipulation , and her fingers having become delicate from the long domiciliary imprisonments to which she had subjected herself at intervals during the last two or three years , she would have been glad to meet the milchers views in this respect 苔丝同她的伙伴们一样，不久也发现喜欢她的挤奶方式的那几头牛在最后两三年里，有时候她长时间地呆在家里，一双手的手指头已经变得娇嫩了，因此她倒愿意去迎合那些奶牛的意思。
He unbuttoned successively in reversed direction waistcoat , trousers , shirt and vest along the medial line of irregular incrispated black hair extending in triangular convergence from the pelvic basin over the circumference of the abdomen and umbilicular fossicle along the medial line of nodes to the intersection of the sixth pectoral vertebr aelig ; , thence produced both ways at right angles and terminating in circles described about two equidistant points , right and left , on the summits of the mammary prominences 然后又反过来自下而上地依次解开背心长裤衬衫和内衣纽扣。他那双手的轨迹从参差不卷缩起皱的黑色体毛的中心线也就是自骨盆底到下腹部肚脐眼周围那一簇簇体毛，又沿着节结的中心线进而延伸到第六胸脊椎的交叉点，从这里又向两侧丛生，构成直角形，在左右等距离的两个点，即环绕乳头顶端形成的三角形收敛图形的中心线穿行。
