The sexton walked before with an air of cold indifference.

教堂司事走在前面， 神情冷漠。

Martin Cannister, the sexton, was rather a favourite with Elfride.

教堂司事马丁·坎尼斯特 (Martin Cannister) 颇受埃尔弗里德的喜爱。

He was the sexton, too, and dug many of the graves around us'.

他也是教堂司事， 在我们周围挖了许多坟墓。

" I must call at the sexton's about the bell, too, " said Arabella.

“我也必须去教堂司事那里问问钟声， ” 阿拉贝拉说。

The sexton's wife waited a long time for her husband, but he did not come back.

教堂司事的妻子等了她丈夫很久， 但他没有回来。

If that be all, ' replied the sexton, 'he can learn that with me.

’如果仅此而已， ” 教堂司事回答说， “他可以跟我学。

The sexton therefore took him into his house, and he had to ring the church bell.

因此，教堂司事把他带进了他的房子， 他不得不敲响教堂的钟。

The sexton, however, remained standing motionless that the boy might think he was a ghost.

然而，司事一动不动地站着，生怕男孩以为他是鬼。

And this garden, where the black mould always clings to my spade, as if I were a sexton delving in a graveyard!

还有这个花园，黑色的霉菌总是粘在我的铲子上，就好像我是一个在墓地里钻研的教堂司事！

But they had scarcely touched the sexton when they were held fast, and now there were seven of them running behind Dummling and the goose.

但是他们几乎没有碰到教堂司事就被紧紧地抓住了，现在他们中的七个人跑在邓姆林和鹅的后面。

But the book only really comes alive when he is talking to the old sexton or the weavers who started work at 13 (part-time at 11) .

但是，只有当Barker在与教堂司事或者那些从13岁开始做纺织工（兼职从11岁开始）交谈时，这本书才真正生动起来。

Newland Archer, at a signal from the sexton, had come out of the vestry and placed himself with his best man on the chancel step of Grace Church.

纽兰·阿切尔在教堂司事的示意下，已经走出礼拜堂， 和他的伴郎一起站在恩典教堂的圣坛台阶上。

After a day or two, the sexton awoke him at midnight, and bade him arise and go up into the church tower and ring the bell.

一两天后，教堂司事半夜把他叫醒，吩咐他起来， 上教堂的钟楼去按铃。

The sexton was waiting at the porch to take the communion plate, and while the Vicar went to the vestry Mrs. Carey and Philip settled themselves in the vicarage pew.

教堂司事在门廊等着拿圣餐盘，而当牧师去礼拜堂时，凯里夫人和菲利普在牧师住宅的长椅上坐了下来。

" Yes, it seems to be my glove indeed! " " And, since Satan saw fit to steal it, your reverence must needs handle him without gloves, henceforward, " remarked the old sexton, grimly smiling.

“不错，好像真的是我的手套！” “而且，既然撒旦认为有必要偷走它，从今以后，阁下必须不戴手套对付他，”老教堂司事冷酷地笑着说。

Then, wot with undertakers, and wot with parish clerks, and wot with sextons, and wot with private watchmen (all awaricious and all in it), a man wouldn’t get much by it, even if it wos so.

然后，与承办人一起工作， 与教区书记员一起工作， 与教堂司事一起工作，与私人看守人一起工作（所有人都心存侥幸， 全都参与其中），一个人不会从中得到多少， 即使是这样。

Whilst the five were trotting thus one behind the other, two labourers came with their hoes from the fields; the parson called out to them and begged that they would set him and the sexton free.

就在这五个人一前一后小跑的时候，两个农夫拿着锄头从地里走了出来。牧师大声呼唤他们， 请求他们释放他和教堂司事。

Soon after this the sexton came to the house on a visit, and the father bewailed his trouble, and told him how his younger son was so backward in every respect that he knew nothing and learnt nothing.

不久之后，司事来家里拜访，父亲为他的麻烦而哀叹，并告诉他他的小儿子在各方面都如此落后， 以至于他什么都不会， 什么也学不到。