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| 81. | tap-room lamps which emitted more smoke than light, suspended from nails in the wainscot;on the tables candles in brass candlesticks; darkness, ugliness, sadness; |
| 几张咖啡馆常用的那种光少烟多的植物油灯挂在壁板上的钉子上，桌上的铜烛台里插了几支蜡烛，这里是阴暗、丑陋、沉闷的； |
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| 82. | She reluctantly removed her hand from his and opened the bottom right cupboard. From it she took two white candles she had bought in Des Moines that morning, along with a small brass holder for each candle. |
| 她不情愿地从他手里抽出了自己的手,打开柜子右边底层,拿出两支白蜡烛来,那是她当天早晨在得梅音买的,同时还买了两个铜烛台。 |
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| 83. | The figures were smiling coquettishly and altogether looked as though, had it not been for the necessity of supporting the candlestick, they would have skipped off the pedestal and have indulged in an orgy such as is improper for the reader even to imagine. |
| 那两个女人撩人心弦地微笑着，总之从外貌来看，要不是她们必须支撑烛台，似乎就会从台座上跳下来，在房间里打打闹闹，可是那样的情景，读者诸君，就连想一下都是不成体统的。 |
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