You know, the truth is that Abigail Spencer and I are old acquaintances, after a fashion.

真相就是，艾比盖·斯宾塞和我是老相识了，勉强算是吧。

That is done after a fashion by the orphans'.

这是孤儿们的一种时尚做法。

Why they are your cousins, you know, after a fashion.

你知道，从某种意义上来说，他们是你的堂兄弟。

I got myself dressed after a fashion and went to the back door and called her.

我随手穿好衣服， 走到后门叫她。

It worked after a fashion — but not well enough to meet the guarantee we had made.

它以一种时尚的方式起作用——但还不足以满足我们做出的保证。

He patched me up after a fashion—Riccardo seems to think it was rather badly done, but that may be professional jealousy.

他以一种时尚的方式修补了我——Riccardo 似乎认为它做得相当糟糕，但这可能是职业嫉妒。

“Well, I certainly did have a drink...and I came back...after a fashion, ” mumbled Dumbledore. “So you decided to spring a trap for me? ”

“是啊，我确实是去喝了些东西… … 现在我回来了… … 勉强回来了，”邓布利多轻声嘟囔道，“所以你就决定给我设置一个陷阱？”

He got out hides because it had to be done—goatskins and calfskins—steeped them in the river, laid them in bark, and tanned them after a fashion ready for shoes.

他拿出兽皮， 因为这是必须要做的——山羊皮和小牛皮——把它们浸泡在河里， 放在树皮里， 然后按照一种时尚的方式将它们鞣制成鞋子。

He worked, after a fashion; not very hard, but as much as the Government would have required of him for nine hundred dollars a year; and his work defied frivolity.

他以一种时尚的方式工作； 不是很辛苦， 但政府对他的要求是每年九百美元； 他的作品拒绝轻浮。

After all, Oline was not as bad as she might have been; she kept house for him after a fashion, and looked to his cattle; she was merely a fool, and that was worst for herself.

毕竟，奥琳并没有她想象的那么糟糕； 她以一种时尚的方式为他打理家务， 照看他的牲畜。 她只是个傻瓜， 这对她自己来说是最糟糕的。

At last, on February 3, he drove, after a fashion, down the Irish Channel, on board the Teutonic. He had not crossed the Atlantic for a dozen years, and had never seen an ocean steamer of the new type.

终于，在 2 月 3 日，他驾驶着条顿人号驶过爱尔兰海峡。他已经有十几年没有横渡大西洋了，也从未见过新型远洋轮船。

Joan of Arc, a village girl from the Vosges, was born about 1412; burnt for heresy, witchcraft, and sorcery in 1431; rehabilitated after a fashion in 1456; designated Venerable in 1904; declared Blessed in 1908; and finally canonized in 1920.

圣女贞德 (Joan of Arc) 是孚日 (Vosges) 的一个村姑，大约出生于 1412 年； 1431 年因异端、巫术和巫术而被烧死； 1456 年经过一番修复； 1904年封为尊者； 1908 年宣告有福；并最终于 1920 年被册封。

All this is a long way round, however, for my word about my dim first move toward " The Portrait, " which was exactly my grasp of a single character — an acquisition I had made, moreover, after a fashion not here to be retraced.

然而，所有这一切都是一个漫长的过程，就我所说的关于我对“肖像”的模糊第一次移动而言，这正是我对一个角色的把握——此外，我已经获得了一种无法在这里追溯的时尚.