It stood on a hill overlooking the village, some of its windows boarded, tiles missing from its roof, and ivy spreading unchecked over its face.

房子坐落在一道山坡上，从这里可以看见整个村子。房子的几扇窗户被封死了，房顶上的瓦残缺不全，爬山虎张牙舞爪地爬满了整座房子。

He was standing in the middle of a desolate but strangely familiar room, with peeling paper on the walls and all the windows boarded up except for one.

他正站在一个空荡荡的，却又异常熟悉的房间中央，四壁上带着剥落的墙纸，除了一扇窗户外其余都被钉上了木板。

Such a house, small, secluded, and with its windows boarded up, he had casually observed a month earlier, about two miles beyond the village of East Egdon, and six miles distant altogether; and thither he directed his steps today.

大约一个月前，他无意中看到这样一所房子，房子不大，与外界隔绝，窗户用木板钉着，房子离东埃格敦大约两英里，总共约需走上六英里；今天他就是朝那儿去的。