As it drew towards the appointed hour, he went outside into the garden and mounted the tan-heap to await the raven.

快到约定的时间时，他走到外面的花园里， 登上棕褐色堆等待乌鸦。

Maule's Lane, or Pyncheon Street, as it were now more decorous to call it, was thronged, at the appointed hour, as with a congregation on its way to church.

Maule's Lane，或 Pyncheon Street，现在更得体地称呼它，在指定的时间挤满了人，就像去教堂的会众一样。

At the appointed hour we met on the bayou bank, and creeping among the high weeds, I lighted the candle, while he drew forth pencil and paper and prepared for business.

在约定的时间， 我们在河口岸边会面，我爬到高高的水草丛中， 点燃了蜡烛， 而他则拿出铅笔和纸准备工作。

He was not the kind of man to be turned from his business by any commotion of the elements; and at the appointed hour his sleigh glided up through the snow like a stage-apparition behind thickening veils of gauze.

他不是那种会因自然界的任何骚动而放弃自己事业的人。在指定的时间，他的雪橇在厚厚的纱布后面像舞台上的幻影一样滑过雪地。