Zeena, at any rate, did not apply the principle in her own case.

无论如何，Zeena 没有在她自己的案例中应用该原则。

In spite of her sedentary habits such abrupt decisions were not without precedent in Zeena's history.

尽管她有久坐不动的习惯，但在 Zeena 的历史上，这样突然的决定并非没有先例。

The cat, who had been a puzzled observer of these unusual movements, jumped up into Zeena's chair, rolled itself into a ball, and lay watching them with narrowed eyes.

这只猫一直对这些不寻常的动作感到困惑，它跳到 Zeena 的椅子上，把自己滚成一团，眯起眼睛躺在那里看着他们。

The cat had jumped from Zeena's chair to dart at a mouse in the wainscot, and as a result of the sudden movement the empty chair had set up a spectral rocking.

那只猫从 Zeena 的椅子上跳了下来， 朝壁板上的一只老鼠扑过去， 由于突然的动作， 空椅子引起了幽灵般的摇晃。

Zeena's empty rocking-chair stood facing him. Mattie rose obediently, and seated herself in it. As her young brown head detached itself against the patch-work cushion that habitually framed his wife's gaunt countenance, Ethan had a momentary shock.

Zeena 的空摇椅站在他对面。玛蒂顺从地站起来，坐在里面。当她年轻的棕色脑袋靠在习惯性地衬托出他妻子憔悴面容的拼布垫子上时，伊桑瞬间震惊了。

It was formed of Zeena's obstinate silence, of Mattie's sudden look of warning, of the memory of just such fleeting imperceptible signs as those which told him, on certain stainless mornings, that before night there would be rain.

它是由 Zeena 顽固的沉默、Mattie 突然发出警告的表情、以及对那些转瞬即逝的难以察觉的迹象的记忆形成的，这些迹象告诉他，在某些毫无生气的早晨，天黑前会下雨。