The trolleys roaring out from Nettleton became great luminous serpents coiling in and out among the trees.

从内特尔顿呼啸而出的手推车变成了发光的巨蛇， 盘绕在树林间。

She was going with him to spend the next day—the Fourth of July—at Nettleton.

第二天——七月四日——她要和他一起去内特尔顿。

Two days later, she descended from the train at Nettleton, and walked out of the station into the dusty square.

两天后，她在内特尔顿下了火车，走出车站，走进尘土飞扬的广场。

" Don't you ever feel like going down to Nettleton for a day" ? she asked.

“难道你不想去内特尔顿呆一天吗”？她问。

Vague thoughts of Nettleton flitted through her mind.

关于内特尔顿的模糊念头在她脑海中掠过。

He spent three days in Nettleton, won his case, and came back in high good-humour.

他在内特尔顿呆了三天， 打赢了官司， 然后兴高采烈地回来了。

Lawyer Royall, who hated to go to Nettleton, had been called there in connection with a case.

讨厌去内特尔顿的罗亚尔律师因为一个案子被叫到那里。

But they had never spoken to each other since the night on the wharf at Nettleton.

但自从在内特尔顿码头那天晚上以来， 他们就再也没有说过话。

The fellow came down to Nettleton and ran amuck, the way they sometimes do.

那家伙来到内特尔顿， 胡作非为，就像他们有时做的那样。

The noise and colour of this holiday vision seemed to transform Nettleton into a metropolis.

这种假日景象的喧嚣和色彩似乎将内特尔顿变成了一座大都市。

It was Nettleton Lake that she was looking at.

她看到的是内特尔顿湖。

She understood why he was not more eager: he must have seen sights beside which even a Fourth of July at Nettleton would seem tame.

她明白他为什么没有更热切：他一定看到了一些景象，与这些景象相比， 即使是在内特尔顿的七月四日也显得平淡无奇。

I got him convicted, though they were scared of the Mountain even at Nettleton; and then a queer thing happened.

我把他定罪了， 尽管他们甚至在内特尔顿都害怕这座山；然后发生了一件奇怪的事情。

If—as was almost inevitable—rumours of the scandalous scene at Nettleton should reach North Dormer, how else would her disappearance be interpreted?

如果——这几乎是不可避免的——关于内特尔顿丑闻的谣言传到了北多默，那么她的失踪将如何解释？

For a moment she thought the evangelist must have heard a report of the scene at Nettleton; then she saw the absurdity of the supposition.

有那么一会儿， 她认为传教士一定听说过关于内特尔顿现场的报道；然后她看到了这个假设的荒谬之处。

He was no longer listening to her, he was only looking at her, with the passionate absorbed expression she had seen in his eyes after they had kissed on the stand at Nettleton.

他不再听她说话， 他只是看着她，带着他们在 Nettleton 的看台上接吻后她在他眼中看到的充满激情的全神贯注的表情。

Down at Creston they told me that the first colonists are supposed to have been men who worked on the railway that was built forty or fifty years ago between Springfield and Nettleton.

在克雷斯顿， 他们告诉我， 第一批殖民者应该是四十或五十年前在斯普林菲尔德和内特尔顿之间建造的铁路上工作的人。

He reminded her of the gentleman who had " explained" the pictures at Nettleton, and the weight of her ignorance settled down on her again like a pall.

他让她想起了那位在内特尔顿“解释” 过这些画作的绅士，她无知的重担又一次压在她身上。

They all know her mother was a woman of the town from Nettleton, that followed one of those Mountain fellows up to his place and lived there with him like a heathen.

他们都知道她的母亲是内特尔顿镇上的一个女人，跟着一个山里的人来到他的住处， 像异教徒一样和他住在一起。

The heat had grown suffocating—she felt it descend on her in smothering waves, and the faces in the crowded hall began to dance like the pictures flashed on the screen at Nettleton.

热气变得令人窒息——她觉得它像一股令人窒息的波浪一样降临在她身上，拥挤的大厅里的脸开始跳舞， 就像内特尔顿屏幕上闪过的照片一样。