He must have pumped Janey for details 他肯定追问过珍妮详细的情况。
He had not heard her divorce spoken of since Janey's first random allusion to it, and had dismissed the tale as unfounded gossip. 第一次听詹尼随便说起她要离婚时,他把它当作了毫无根据的流言,并没在意。此后,他再也没有听人说过这事。
"I don't know; it sounds more& more Polish," said Janey, blushing. “不知道,听起来更&更有波兰味,”詹尼涨红了脸说。
"Janey!" said her mother; and Miss Archer blushed and tried to look audacious. “詹尼!”她母亲说;阿切尔小姐脸一红,同时想装出无所顾忌的样子。
"I hear she means to get a divorce," said Janey boldly. “我听说她打算离婚,”詹尼冒失地说。
"I wonder if she wears a round hat or a bonnet in the afternoon," Janey speculated. “不知下午她戴的是圆檐帽还是软帽,”詹尼猜测说。
Britain's Got Talent star Janey Cutler has captured the attention of US television bosses, according to reports. 据报道,《英国达人》热门人物珍妮·卡特勒已经吸引了美国电视台老板们的注意。
Don't be a goose, Janey& I'm not her keeper. 别像个小傻瓜似的,詹尼&我可不是她的监护人。
Janey knew every fold of the Beaufort mystery. 珍妮对鲍富特秘密的所有细节,都了如指掌。
The next afternoon, as Archer, before dinner, sat smoking sullenly in his study, Janey wandered in on him. 第二天晚饭之前,阿切尔正心情阴郁地坐在书房里吸烟,詹尼漫步进来走到他跟前。
'It's odd,' Janey remarked, 'that she should have kept such an ugly name as Ellen!' 奇怪,珍妮说,她竟一直用埃伦这么个难听的名字。
She glanced at Janey and paused. 她斜眼看了看珍妮,闭上嘴。
He raised his head irritably when his sister Janey entered, and then quickly bent over his book ( Swinburne's "Chastelard"& just out) as if he had not seen her. 妹妹詹尼进屋的时候,他烦躁地抬起头来,接着又迅速俯身读他的书(斯温伯恩的《沙特拉尔》&刚出版的),仿佛没看见她一样。
"Another lamp," she cried to the retreating servant, while Janey bent over to straighten her mother's cap. “再点一盏灯,”她向退出去的仆人喊道,詹尼这时正低头抚平母亲的便帽。
She raised a troubled brow from her needlework to ask: "Has Janey told you?" 她停下针线活,抬起忧虑的额头问道:“詹尼告诉你了吗?”
"Not as well as you, dear," he rejoined, wondering what had suddenly developed in her Janey's morbid interest in clothes. “不会比你穿得更好,亲爱的,”他回答说,心里纳闷是什么原因使她对衣着产生了詹尼那种病态的兴趣。
Mrs Archer and Janey trailed their long silk draperies up to the drawing-room. 阿切尔夫人和珍妮拖着她们的长丝裙上楼向客厅走去。
Janey's a smart kid-she'll do okay. 珍妮是个聪明的孩子,她能行的。