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| 71. | "Connie liked her, she was so perfectly simple and [rank, as far as she intended to be frank, and superficially kind. Inside herself she was a past-mistress in holding her own, and holding other people a little lower." |
| 当她愿意的时候,她是这样的简单率直,而且外表上是这样慈蔼。其实她对于守着她的地位,而且守到比他人高一点的它术上,她是个能手。 |
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| 72. | They are not perfect ovals - like the egg in the Columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end - but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead. |
| 它们并不是工整的椭圆形——像哥伦布故事中的鸡蛋一佯，在联接长岛的一面也是砸得平平的——，然而，它们在外表上如此相似，准让空中飞翔的海鸥永远分辨不清。 |
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| 73. | Between these two young men the striking resemblance was in outward appearance only. Charles Darnay was of noble Birth; But his ancestors had for many years so cruelly oppressed the French peasantry that the name of Evremonde was hated and despised. |
| 这两个年轻人只是在外表上极端相似。查尔斯·达尔内是贵族出身;但他的先辈们曾世世代代残酷地压榨过法国农民,因此埃弗尔蒙这一家族受到人们普遍的憎恨和鄙视。 |
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| 74. | but still, I repeat, they are no guarantee for sanctity or even for conscientiousness, they may attach to the man of the world, to the profligate, to the heartless, pleasant, alas, and attractive as he shows when decked out in them. |
| 唉，当他们用它伪装起来时，就更增加了他们外表上的冷静、快活和魅力。 |
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