Elfride looked thoughtfully at the myrtle.

埃尔弗里德若有所思地看着桃金娘。

'That enervating ride through the myrtle climate of South Devon—how I dread it to-morrow! ' Mrs. Swancourt was saying.

“在南德文郡的桃金娘气候中进行的那次令人筋疲力尽的旅程——我多么害怕明天！ ” 斯旺考特夫人在说。

And ultimately, to the commonest tourist, spots like Iceland may become what the vineyards and myrtle gardens of South Europe are to him now.

像冰岛这样的地方，对于最普通的旅游者来说，最终也许都会变得跟他看南欧的葡萄园和香桃木园一样。

'That is only an ordinary myrtle'.

“那只是一棵普通的桃金娘” 。

But he was especially anxious to vanquish his competitors with his handles of bamboo, dogwood, olive, myrtle, rattan, indeed every imaginable sort of handle.

但他特别渴望用竹子、山茱萸、橄榄树、桃金娘、藤条， 实际上是所有可以想象到的把手来打败他的竞争对手。

Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, " They are the ones the Lord has sent to go throughout the earth" .

那站在番石榴树中间的人说：" 这是奉耶和华差遣，在遍地走来走去的。"

'No: I am fond of myrtle'. Seeing that she did not take kindly to the idea, he said again, 'Why do you object to my having that'?

“不：我喜欢桃金娘”。见她不以为然，他又说：“你为什么反对我要那个？”

I once saw a pair consummate their union on the tip of a crepe myrtle bough, most precariously, and other pairs have mated at the edge of the bird-bath.

我曾经看到一对在绉桃金娘树枝的顶端完成他们的结合，非常不稳定，而其他对则在鸟浴的边缘交配。

For a mile we had a low rolling hill for company, with traces of ancient habitation at its peak: a few yards of rotting fence, a crepe myrtle, an orange tree.

在一英里范围内， 我们有一座连绵起伏的低矮山丘， 山顶上有古代居住的痕迹：几码腐烂的栅栏、紫薇和橘子树。

The subject then dropped. Knight thought no more of the matter till, on entering his bedroom in the evening, he found the second myrtle placed upon his dressing-table as he had directed.

然后话题就散了。奈特没有再多想这件事，直到晚上走进他的卧室时，他发现第二颗桃金娘按照他的指示放在了他的梳妆台上。