" Your Grace" ? said Blount. " Shall I fetch a cup of water" ?

" 陛下，" 布劳恩建议，" 我给您端杯水来好吗？"

Blount, would you care to take a peach puff and a glass of wine'?

布朗特， 你愿意来一个桃子泡芙和一杯葡萄酒吗？

He thought of the quarrel between Blount and the Negro.

他想起了布朗特和那个黑人之间的争吵。

At my request he sent for Sudbury and Blount, the two students who had found the dog.

应我的要求， 他派人把萨德伯里和布朗特找来， 这两个学生是发现那只狗的。

The thing that mattered was the way Blount and Mick made of him a sort of home-made God.

重要的是布朗特和米克把他塑造成一种自制的上帝。

Blount licked his mustache with his broad, wet tongue.

布朗特用他又宽又湿的舌头舔了舔胡子。

Blount smacked his hands down on the counter.

布朗特用手拍打柜台。

He reached for two A-1 cigars on the shelf behind the counter and offered Blount a smoke.

他伸手从柜台后面的架子上拿了两支 A-1 雪茄， 递给布朗特一支。

He could not keep Blount longer.

他不能再留布朗特了。

Blount leaned over suddenly and smelled Biff's face. '

布朗特突然俯身闻了闻比夫的脸。

Blount's chest was heaving. " One of the gaolers has gone missing too. Rugen, his name was. Two other men we found asleep" .

布劳恩的胸膛起起伏伏，" 有位狱卒也同时失踪。他名叫罗根。其他两位狱卒则睡着了。"

He wanted to draw Blount out completely so that he could understand certain questions concerning him.

他想把布朗特完全引出来， 这样他就能理解有关他的某些问题。

But Blount would never really talk — only to the mute.

但布朗特永远不会真正说话——只会和哑巴说话。

Thanks for the cigar, ' Blount said. '

“谢谢你的雪茄， ” 布朗特说。

'I know spongers, and Blount's not one, ' Biff said.

“我认识海绵， 布朗特不是， ” Biff 说。

Blount sat down to the table and leaned over close to Singer.

布朗特在桌边坐下，俯身靠近辛格。

'Buck up and keep your nose clean, ' he said to Blount.

“振作起来， 保持鼻子干净， ” 他对布朗特说。

And although Biff had noticed Blount very carefully he would never have guessed about the crazy things that happened later.

尽管 Biff 非常仔细地注意到了布朗特， 但他绝不会猜到后来发生的疯狂事情。

Before he left Biff saw him turn on Blount with a look of quivering hatred.

在他离开之前， 比夫看到他用一种颤抖的仇恨表情转向布朗特。

Blount paid no attention to anyone in the place except the mute.

除了那个哑巴， 布朗特没有注意到这个地方的任何人。