This ominous tool she presented to Miss Scatcherd with a respectful curtesy; then she quietly, and without being told, unloosed her pinafore, and the teacher instantly and sharply inflicted on her neck a dozen strokes with the bunch of twigs.
她恭敬地向斯卡查德小姐献上了这件不祥的工具；然后她悄悄地，没有被告知，解开她的围裙，老师立即用那束树枝在她的脖子上猛烈地敲了十几下。