世界名著翻译佳作--Vanity Fair名利场
直接引语变间接引语练习题BEFORE THE CURTAIN
开幕以前的⼏句话
As the manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards and looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling place.
领班的坐在戏台上幌⼦前⾯，对着底下闹哄哄的市场，瞧了半晌，⼼⾥不觉悲惨起来。
There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling;
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市场上的⼈有的在吃喝，有的在调情，有的得了新宠就丢了旧爱；有在笑的，也有在哭的，还有在抽烟的，打架的，跳舞的，拉提琴的，诓骗哄⼈的。
fiddling--[transitive] British English informalSCC to give fal information about something, in order to avoid paying money or to get extra money:
--[intransitive] to play a violin
fiddle around phrasal verb
考研网络课程to waste time doing unimportant things
there are bullies pushing about, bucks ogling the women, knaves picking pockets, policemen on the look-out, quacks (OTHER quacks, plague take them!) bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinlled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.
有些是到处横⾏的强梁汉⼦；有些是对⼥⼈飞眼⼉的花花公⼦，也有扒⼉⼿和到处巡逻的警察，还有⾛江湖吃⼗⽅的，在⾃⼰摊⼦前⾯扯起嗓⼦嚷嚷（这些⼈偏和我同⾏，真该死！），跳舞的穿着浑⾝发亮的⾐服，可怜的翻⽄⽃⽼头⼉涂着两腮帮⼦胭脂，引得那些乡下佬睁着眼瞧，不提防后⾯就有三只⼿的家伙在掏他们的⼝袋。
澳洲中文
bullies--
1. bul'ly plural bullies [countable]
js培训>shikaisomeone who us their strength or power to frighten or hurt someone who is weaker:textbook
水果的英文2. bucks-- old-fashioned a young man ➔ (get) a bigger/better etc bang for your buck at bang1
3. knave [countable]twich>gkt
old-fashioned a dishonest boy or man
4. quack [countable]
someone who pretends to be a doctor - ud in order to show disapproval
5. yo'kel [countable]
someone who comes from the countryside, ems stupid, and does not know much about modern life, ideas etc - ud humorously
Yes, this is VANITY FAIR;not a moral place certainly; nor a merry one, though very noisy.
这⾥虽然是个热闹去处，却是道德沦亡，说不上有什么快活。
