" Well, that's a good sign, if he's getting a little cross. Did he—did he happen to say anything—for instance, about me" ?

“好吧，如果他有点生气， 那是个好兆头。他有没有——他有没有碰巧说了什么——比如关于我的事” ？

And so—to help him out of his torment—I happened to say, in pure thoughtlessness, that I should like to live in this villa.

于是——为了帮助他摆脱痛苦——我不假思索地说， 我想住在这栋别墅里。

Mrs. Bulstrode, paying a morning visit to Mrs. Plymdale, happened to say that she could not stay longer, because she was going to see poor Rosamond.

布尔斯特罗德太太早上去拜访普林代尔太太，碰巧说她不能再待久了，因为她要去见可怜的罗莎蒙德。

The point isn't just to know what this all that philosopher happened to say but to aim to exercise wisdom at an individual and societal level starting now.

主要的不只是知道哲学家偶然说过这些和那些而是致力在个人和社会的一级上从现在就开始来运用智慧。

I am sure, for my part, I should never have known he did like it better than any other colour, if he had not happened to say so.

我确信，就我而言，如果他不这么说的话，我永远不会知道他确实比喜欢其他颜色更喜欢它。

The truly blessed among us are not those with perfect symmetry; they are those whose past affords them the luxury not to give too much of a damn whatever the mirror happens to say.

我们当中真正幸运的不是那些外表完美的人，而是那些他们过去的经历让他们有能力面对无论镜子里是什么模样，都不会太在意的人。

" To hinder" is to make it more difficult or to slow down a process, and " to forbid" means to say something shouldn't happen – to say you can't do something even though someone may do it anyway.

“阻碍” 是让它变得更加困难或减慢进程，“禁止” 是指说某事不应该发生——说你不能做某事， 即使有人可能会做某事。

Perhaps we may be permitted to quote, also from that officially approved dramatic production known as Hamlet, a good thing that happened to be said by a bad man: " And where the offence is let the great axe fall" .

或许我们可以被允许引用，也来自被称为哈姆雷特的官方批准的戏剧作品，一个坏人恰好说过的一句好话：“在犯罪的地方让大斧头落下”。