A dreamy, bookish pharmacist, happier talking to his children about Dostoyevsky and Dickens than doing the accounts.

他是个心怀梦想书生气的药剂师，与整理账目相比，他更乐意去和自己的孩子们谈论狄更斯和陀思妥耶夫斯基(俄国小说家)。

174.No, silly. That was happy talk.

才不是 傻瓜 我聊得开心呢。

From either end of the corridor where they stood came the sound of hundreds of feet climbing the stairs, and the loud, happy talk of well-fed people; next moment, students were crashing into the passage from both ends.

从他们所处的走廊的两端，传来几百只脚登上楼梯的声音，以及人们茶足饭饱后愉快的高声谈笑。接着，学生们就推推挤挤地从两端拥进过道。