In the course of the afternoon and evening these hints were enlarged on : various soft conversations were reported , and sentimental scenes represented ; and , in short , a volume of a novel of fashionable life was that day improvised by her for my benefit 那天下午和晚上，她把这些暗示又加以扩充，转述各类情意绵绵的交谈，描绘了不少多愁善感的场面。总之那天她为我临时编造了一部时髦生活的小说。
This , many british men feel , makes them better than the " hysterical " italians , " namby - pamby " french , and those pathetic americans weeping and hugging each other , barbara ellen , a british columnist , recently wrote in the observer newspaper 一位专栏作家巴巴拉?艾伦最近在《观察家报》上撰文说，这种感觉让英国男人觉得自己可以傲视那些歇斯底里的意大利人，多愁善感的法国人和互相拥抱、涕泪横流的可悲的美国人。
Either i turn you down , in which case you will resent me , or i say yes , in which case you won t have much of a mistress ; someone who is temperamental , ill , depressed , or gay in a way that is sadder than sorrow itself , someone who coughs blood and spends a hundred thousand francs a year ? which is all very well for a rich old man like the duke , but it s not much of a prospect for a young man like yourself “或者是我拒绝您，那您就会怨恨我或者是我接受您，那您就有了一个多愁善感的情妇一个神经质的女人，一个有病的女人，一个忧郁的女人，一个快乐的时候比痛苦还要悲伤的女人，一个吐血的一年要花费十万法郎的女人，对公爵这样一个有钱的老头儿来说是可以的，但是对您这样一个年轻人来说是很麻烦的。
