The guards at the palace gate were asked: If they had not seen a princess go out.

皇宫的守卫被问到是否有看到位公主从这出去。

Lulu says that at the palace gates, it was sombre.

璐璐说，宫门口，阴森森的。

Horses' hoofs would clatter, now and again, only to turn out to be riders leaving the palace gates.

马蹄声不时响起， 原来是骑马的人出宫门。

At last he went to the palace gate and asked the gate-keeper if there was not some work for him to do in the palace.

终于有一天，汉斯来到了王宫的大门口，他问门卫王官里有没有自己能做的工作。

The road to the palace gate was covered with the sick and dying, lying on the ground at the moment the nabob was about to pass.

当王子要经过王宫大门的时候，道路上到处躺着生病和垂死的人。

A little later, groups of lights appeared in the distance and a great crowd wound its way, like some great serpent, along the roads in the darkness, towards the palace gates.

不多时，远处出现一团团灯火， 一大群人像一条大蛇， 在黑暗中沿着道路蜿蜒前行， 朝着宫门而去。