1. The costume served as a stand-in for herself. a second skin never totally assimilated to the person hidden under it but so integral to her that even when it was taken off, it retained something of the wearer's being.
難句類型:復(fù)雜修飾
難詞注解:stand-in n.替身,代表,作替身assimilate vt.吸收,消化,使同化
參考譯文:盛裝對(duì)她而言是另一個(gè)自己,第二層皮膚;雖然沒(méi)有完全融入隱藏在這之下的人,卻與她渾然一體。即使華服隱去,它依然體現(xiàn)了穿著者的風(fēng)格。
2. Toward the end of the afternoon, we followed what seemed to be a large movement of chimpanzees into one great open room in the forest, relatively clear except for columns of nut trees.
難句類型:復(fù)雜修飾
難詞注解:column n. 列,專欄
參考譯文:臨近傍晚,我們沿著貌似一大群猩猩的活動(dòng)蹤跡進(jìn)入到森林當(dāng)中空曠的地帶,那里除了幾列果樹(shù)以外,什么都沒(méi)有。