The great Giraud is nothing but a toy balloon — swollen with its own importance.

伟大的吉罗只不过是一个玩具气球——因其自身的重要性而膨胀。

You don't ask for a pearl necklace or a sable coat at a booth in a fair; you ask for a tin trumpet and a toy balloon'.

您不会在集市的摊位上要珍珠项链或貂皮大衣；你要一个锡喇叭和一个玩具气球'。

In the east, the sky was pearly grey and iridescent, like a toy balloon filled with cigarette smoke, and among the shrubs the mocking birds were beginning their first song.

在东方，天空呈珍珠灰色，呈虹彩状，就像一个充满香烟烟雾的玩具气球，在灌木丛中， 嘲笑的鸟儿正在开始它们的第一声歌唱。