Only last August it was the Gadfly; now it's Montanelli.

就在去年八月，它是牛虻；现在是蒙泰尼利。

He found the Gadfly lying still, with closed eyes and parted lips.

他发现牛虻静静地躺着，闭着眼睛，张着嘴唇。

He liked the Gadfly very much, but could not digest this one trait in him—this curious personal maliciousness.

他非常喜欢这只牛虻，但无法消化他身上的这一特征——这种奇怪的个人恶意。

To Martini she said frankly that she had undertaken to help the Gadfly with some " frontier work" .

她对马蒂尼坦率地说，她已经承诺帮助牛虻做一些“前沿工作”。

" Athens is like a sluggish horse, " he is reputed to have said, " and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life."

据说，苏格拉底曾说：“雅典就像一匹驽马，而我就是一只不断叮它，让它具有活力的牛蝇。”

" So it's the Gadfly, " thought Gemma, looking at him with some curiosity.

“原来是牛虻，”琼玛心想，好奇地看着他。

" Well, Madonna, and what do you think of the Gadfly" ?

“好吧，麦当娜，你觉得牛虻怎么样”？

Near the tree the sergeant stopped short, and the Gadfly looked round with his brightest smile.

在树附近，中士突然停了下来，牛虻带着最灿烂的笑容环顾四周。

It was the Gadfly whose eyes sank first. He shrank down, hiding his face; and Montanelli understood that the gesture meant " Go" !

是牛虻的眼睛先沉了下去。他缩了缩身子，遮住了脸。蒙塔内利明白这个手势的意思是“去”！

Presently he heard the Gadfly move restlessly two or three times. He put down his book and listened.

不久，他听到牛虻不安地动了两三下。他放下书仔细听。

As he slipped his arm round the Gadfly to lift him, he suddenly felt the damp, cold fingers close over his wrist like a vice.

当他用胳膊搂住牛虻把他举起来时，他突然感到潮湿、冰冷的手指像虎钳一样紧紧地抓住了他的手腕。

A man who had been spending two hours a day for the last three weeks in interrogating the Gadfly might be pardoned an occasional swear-word.

一个在过去三个星期里每天花两个小时审问牛虻的人偶尔说一句脏话可能会被原谅。

" Yes, Your Eminence; the day before yesterday I heard him offer to have them taken off if he" —with a glance at the Gadfly—" would answer a question he had asked" .

“是的，阁下；前天我听到他提出如果他”——瞥了一眼牛虻——“会回答他提出的问题”，就可以脱掉它们。

Gemma, after waiting for some time, decided to enter and try if she could find the Gadfly, as she wished to speak to him about an important message which had come from Bailey.

等了一段时间后，杰玛决定进去试试能不能找到牛虻，因为她想和他谈谈贝利带来的重要信息。

" Well, of course you can't live in savage countries without getting a few adventures once in a way, " said the Gadfly lightly; " and you can hardly expect them all to be pleasant" .

“好吧，当然，你不能在野蛮的国家生活，而不是以某种方式经历过几次冒险，”牛虻轻松地说。 “而且你很难指望他们都愉快”。

Marcone, leading his own mare by the bridle, walked towards the tethered horses, the Gadfly slouching along beside him, and the beggar following them with an outstretched hand and a persistent whine.

马尔科内牵着自己的母马，牵着缰绳，走向拴着的马，牛虻在他身边懒洋洋地走着，乞丐跟在他们后面，伸出一只手，不停地呜呜叫。

They sauntered through the market-place together, Michele whistling between his teeth, and the Gadfly trudging along with a bundle over his shoulder, shuffling his feet on the ground to render his lameness less observable.

他们一起漫步穿过市场，米歇尔咬着牙吹着口哨，牛虻在他肩上扛着一个包裹，在地上拖着脚，让他的跛脚不那么明显。

The room was quite dark, but the passage lamp threw a long stream of light across it as she entered, and she saw the Gadfly sitting alone, his head sunk on his breast, and the dog asleep at his feet.

房间里很黑，但当她走进去时，过道灯投射出一道长长的光线，她看到牛虻独自坐着，头埋在胸前，狗在他脚下睡着了。