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vestal adj.1.女灶神的;獻身給女灶神的;修女的。2.處女的...

The quote goes , “ how happy , is the blameless vestal ' s lot 這句名言說: “貞潔女性的命運是多么幸福”

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He would not say whether or not she had attached herself to the sound low church school of his father ; but she would probably be open to conviction on that point ; she was a regular church - goer of simple faith ; honest - hearted , receptive , intelligent , graceful to a degree , chaste as a vestal , and , in personal appearance , exceptionally beautiful 他不知道她信的教是否就是他父親信的那個合理的低教派但是她大概會接受低教派的信仰的她是一個信仰單純和按時上教堂的人她心地忠厚,感覺敏悟,頭腦聰明,舉止也相當高雅,她像祭祀灶神的祭司一樣純潔,容貌也長得異常的美麗。

Franz had remained for nearly a quarter of an hour perfectly hidden by the shadow of the vast column at whose base he had found a resting - place , and from whence his eyes followed the motions of albert and his guides , who , holding torches in their hands , had emerged from a vomitarium at the opposite extremity of the colosseum , and then again disappeared down the steps conducting to the seats reserved for the vestal virgins , resembling , as they glided along , some restless shades following the flickering glare of so many ignes - fatui . all at once his ear caught a sound resembling that of a stone rolling down the staircase opposite the one by which he had himself ascended . there was nothing remarkable in the circumstance of a fragment of granite giving way and falling heavily below ; but it seemed to him that the substance that fell gave way beneath the pressure of a foot , and also that some one , who endeavored as much as possible to prevent his footsteps from being heard , was approaching the spot where he sat 弗蘭茲在那條廊柱的陰影里差不多躲了一刻鐘光景,他的目光跟隨著阿爾貝和那兩個手持火把的向導,他們已從斗獸場盡頭的一座正門里轉了出來,然后又消失在臺階下面,大概是參觀修女們的包廂去了,當他們靜悄悄地溜過的時候,真象是幾個倉皇的鬼影在追隨一簇閃爍的磷火,這時,他的耳朵里突然聽到一種聲音,好象有一塊石頭滾下了他對面的臺階,在這種環境里,一片肅落的花崗石從上面掉下來原是算不得什么稀奇的,但他覺得這種石塊似乎是被一只腳踩下來的,而且似乎有個人正向他坐的這個地方走過來,腳步極輕,象是竭力不讓人聽到似的。

Think of the eighty thousand applauding spectators , the sage matrons who took their daughters , and the charming vestals who made with the thumb of their white hands the fatal sign that said , come , despatch the dying 你想想那八萬個熱烈喝采的觀眾們吧,賢惠的主婦帶著她們的女兒同來,那些妖嬈動人的姑娘們,用她雪白的手翹起大拇指,象是在對獅子說:來吧,別呆著呀!

How happy is the blameless vestal ' s lot , the world forgetting by the world for got , eternal sunshine of the spotless mind , each pray ' re accepted , and each wish resigned 圣潔女神是何等快樂,遺忘世界的同時被世界所遺忘,美麗心靈的永恒陽光,每一份祈禱都被接受,每一份美夢都能成真。

Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire . the soul is merely the vestal handmaid whose task is to keep the sacred flame of love burning 人生只不過是為了滿足不斷的欲望。靈魂只不過是維持愛情圣火的守灶女神。

Said eug nie in a tone which a vestal in the amphitheatre would have used , when urging the victorious gladiator to finish his vanquished adversary 歐熱妮說,她的口氣象是在吩咐競技場上勝利的武士了結他那被征服的對手一樣。

Dubliners . - two dublin vestals , stephen said , elderly and pious , have lived fifty and fiftythree years in fumbally s lane “兩位都柏林的維斯太233 , ”斯蒂芬說, “曾經住在凡巴利小巷234里。

The soul is merely the vestal handmaid whose task is to keep the sacred flame of love burning 人生只不過是為了滿足不斷的欲望,靈魂只不過是維持愛情圣火的守灶女神。

The quote goes , “ how happy , is the blameless vestal ' s lot 這句名言說: “貞潔女性的命運是多么幸福”

Some would be for transforming the beautiful solitary vestal flame by the first effort of the multiplication table into your hearth-fire of slippered affection . 還有些人會把這種美麗專一的圣潔火焰從一開始就按簡單的乘法表轉變成穿著拖鞋圍坐在火爐邊的家庭感情。

It is a gardener's improvement on the vestal of the forest, the wild cherry . 它是一個園藝家培養出的森林修女-野櫻桃的一個變種。