And the tiling that cured him was not a mustard plaster, but a horseman galloping down the road with a letter from Lee, saying he wanted to surrender.

而治愈他的瓦片也不是芥末膏， 而是一名骑马人带着李的一封信在路上疾驰， 他说他想投降。

In fleetingclear spells of lucidity, when Amaranta would bring him his meals he would tell her what bothered him most and would accept her sucking glasses and mustard plasters in a docile way.

在转瞬即逝的清醒状态下，当阿玛兰塔给他送饭时，他会告诉她最让他烦恼的是什么，并且会温顺地接受她的吸奶杯和芥末膏药。

She grabbed for the nearestpiece of cloth to shoo them away and her heart froze with terror as she connected her daughter's evening baths with the mustard plasters that rolled onto the floor.

她抓起最近的一块布把他们赶走，当她把女儿的晚间沐浴与滚到地板上的芥末膏联系起来时，她的心因恐惧而冻结。

" I spent the night, " he records in his Memoirs, " in bathing my feet in hot water and mustard, and putting mustard plasters on my wrists and the back part of my neck, hoping to be cured by morning" .

他在回忆录中写道：“我整夜用热水和芥末洗脚，在手腕和脖子后部贴上芥末膏，希望能在早上痊愈”。