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“I’m terribly sorry, Mrs. Fairfax,” he was saying, and as he opened his mouth, she noticed quickly how handsome the level lines of his teeth were.
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● 来者当是三个青年男客中的一个，此人生得一口齐整漂亮的牙齿，给她的印象该是不错。这位太太今天下午事事不顺心，以致烦躁不安，可是现在并不生气。
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“What on earth are you supposed to be doing?” she said.
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“I thought you were Fay,” he said.
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“What ever made you think I was Fay?”
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“You’re such a lot like her,” he said, “and I thought she came this way.”
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● on earth用以加强疑问代名词what，相当于中文的“到底”。are you supposed是被动语态，可能解释作“人家以为你是在干什么的？”，但此处似应为反身动词（reflexive verb）的被动语态：What on earth do you think you are doing？你到底自以为在干些什么呢？
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● I thought you were Fay此句的动词是过去式：我刚才把你看错了，以为你是Fay（大小姐之名，见前文），所以才把你的鞋子捡起来的。
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● such a lot：多么的。对母亲说她像她的妙龄女儿，该是一句很巧妙的谀辞，这位青年并不存心恭维，但是大约无意中已经博得这位太太的欢心了。
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He began to try to put the shoe on the canopy seat without her noticing it and she said, “What were you going to do if I were Fay?”
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“Oh! we’re having a game,” he said. “It’s a sort of treasure game. You have to find so many things in a given time.”
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● noticing：注意。趁她不注意时，把鞋放在椅上。捡鞋子原来为的是游戏。参加“觅宝”游戏的人（即末句的You），一定要在指定时间（given time）之内，找到某些东西。
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“Such as shoes?” she said.
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“A shoe was one.”
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“And what else?”
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Perhaps because he was still kneeling on the grass, perhaps because both her feet were now shoeless, he seemed more embarrassed than ever. “Oh! a clothespin,” he said, and he hesitated so much before the next of his things that she had suddenly an idea he was making things up. “Then a collar stud. That was for the girls.”
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● both her feet：另外一只鞋也掉下来了。embarrassed：窘迫。
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● clothespin：晾晒衣服时用的木夹子。before the next of his things：说了木夹子，再说下一样东西之前，他吞吞吐吐（hesitated）了好久，才说得出来，以致她忽然有了一个印象：她以为他在编造（making up）了话来骗她。其实他是因为不好意思，才难于启齿的。
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● collar stud：衬衫领子上的活动钮扣（这种衬衫的领子大多不是缝在一起，而是临时装上的）。女孩子要觅的宝是男人衬衫上的钮扣，这种事情说出来不大雅观，无怪那人要格格不吐。
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“Oh! it was different for girls then, was it?”
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“It has to be,” he said. “It’s more fun.”
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“You look terribly hot,” she said. “It would do you much good to rest. How far had you got? What had you found?”
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● different：男女双方所觅的宝不同。
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● It has to be：非这么不可。had got，had found（过去完成式）：他来到这里以前，找到了些什么了？
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“I’d got the clothespin and the shoe… well, I thought I had,“he said, and again she saw the smile, perfect and handsome in the startling whiteness of its expanse between dark lips.
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