I pricked up my ear, for it was positively the first time I had ever heard a dialect.

我竖起耳朵听着，因为这绝对是我第一次听说方言。

" What gibberish is that" ? I said, pricking up my ears.

“那是什么胡言乱语” ？我竖起耳朵说道。

" Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an extra couple of hundred would have been very handy."

“好，你们不难想见，这真使我侧耳恭听啊，因为好些年来，我的生意并不怎么好，这笔额外的二百英镑如能到手，那简直是来得太容易了。”