To the left, behind the door, on a darkened spot of the floor, stood an ill-smelling vat.

在左边，门后，地板上一个黑暗的地方， 放着一个散发着难闻气味的大桶。

On the floor stand some of the near-finished new stone chimeras, the grotesque and menacing beasts installed in the 19th century that look down from the cathedral facade and towers.

地板上立着一些即将完工的新石雕怪兽，这些怪异而恐怖的怪兽于19世纪安置在大教堂上，从正面和塔楼上向下俯瞰。

The door breezed open, after the sketchiest of knocks, and in the middle of the floor stood a small, skinny child of sixteen in shabby tweeds, her dark head hatless and very untidy.

门轻而易举地开了，在最粗略的敲门声之后，地板中央站着一个瘦小的十六岁女孩，穿着破旧的粗花呢，她的黑头发没有戴帽子，非常凌乱。