The casket was soon open before them, and the various jewels spread out, making a bright parterre on the table.

棺材很快在他们面前打开，各式各样的珠宝摊开，在桌子上形成了一个明亮的花坛。

" It might pass for the present, " he said; " but he would yet see me glittering like a parterre" .

“暂时可能会过去，”他说； “但他仍会看到我像花坛一样闪闪发光”。

She then discerned, by the aid of the dusky departing light, a figure, whose sex was undistinguishable, walking down the gravelled path by the parterre towards the river.

然后，借助于昏暗的离去的光线， 她辨认出一个人影， 其性别无法区分， 正沿着花坛旁的碎石小路向河边走去。

It had as many ramifications as the Cretan labyrinth, as many fluctuations as the northern lights, as much colour as a parterre in June, and was as crowded with figures as a coronation.

这个梦，像克里特迷宫一样曲折迷离，跟北极光一样变化不定，和六月里的花坛一样五彩缤纷，像加冕典礼一样人物纷呈。

There was a strong scent of pine and mimosa in the air and the freshly watered gardens of the Casino opposite, interspersed with neat gravel parterres and paths, lent the scene a pretty formalism more appropriate to ballet than to melodrama.

空气中弥漫着浓郁的松树和含羞草的香味，对面的赌场刚浇过水，点缀着整齐的砾石花坛和小径，给这个场景增添了一种更适合芭蕾而不是情节剧的形式主义。