And he stole ￡5 from me, and all.

他还偷了我5英镑。

He phoned me and called the appointment off.

他给我打电话取消了这次约会。

Escargot for me...and a bottle of Mouton Cadet.

我要一份烧蜗牛……再来一瓶酒。

They started shouting at me and it soon got very heavy.

他们开始对我大喊大叫，情形很快变得很严重。

He leant towards me and murmured that he had to leave.

他靠近我, 并小声告诉我他要离开。

Well, between you, me and the gatepost, I heard that she’s pregnant.

嗯，你别告诉别人，我听说她怀孕了。

Slowly and with deliberation she turned to me and told me to get out.

她不慌不忙地转过头来,叫我滚蛋。

She opened the door for me and threw herself in my arms, screaming joyously and demanding that we decorate the tree immediately.

她打开门，直扑我的怀抱，欣喜地喊叫着要马上装饰圣诞树。

I was sitting in a cafe minding my own business when a man came up to me and hit me in the face.

我就坐在咖啡馆里，也没招谁惹谁，忽然有个男的冲上来，一拳打在我脸上。

What brought me to the woods was the prospect of living on earth with nothing between me and the earth—none of the electronic gibber- jabber.

一种期待——期待我和这个世界断绝一切往来，包括远离电子世界的喋喋不休――将我带到这片树林。

During my colleagues, there are so many superexcellent ones, trickish ones, adulatory ones, who are doing better than me, and I have fallen to a walk-on.

同事中，能力卓越者、攻于心计者、溜须拍马者，强于我的更是不胜其数，自己现在已沦为一个跑龙套的。

I just hope that as they grow up I can instil in them the work ethic that my parents instilled in me and my younger brother, Anton.Our mum was a childminder.

我只是希望能随着他们的成长把我父母灌输给我和我弟弟安顿的工作热情灌输给他们。

Ann came to see me when I was in hospital. She was a real Job’s comforter! She told me about somebody who had the same operation as me, and then died a month later.

我住院时安来看我，谁知她的安慰使我更难受。她告诉我，有个人做了和我同样的手术，结果一个月后就死了。