1.The food was horrific — dirty water served alongside rotting meat, gruel, and nearly inedible bread.

食物太可怕了——脏水配着腐烂的肉、稀和几乎不能吃的面包。

2.Give it a little gruel if it is.

如果是的话，给它一点。机翻

3.Do you suppose my subscribers are going to stand such gruel as that?

你认为我的订阅者会忍受样的吗？机翻

4.Hannah had brought me some gruel and dry toast, about, as I supposed, the dinner-hour.

汉娜给我带来了一些稀和干吐司，我想大概是在晚餐时间。机翻

5.If you had kept the boy on gruel, ma'am, this would never have happened.

女士，如果您让孩子吃稀饭，件事就永远不会发生。机翻

6.You and I will have a nice basin of gruel together.

- 你和我将一起享用一盆美味的稀。机翻

7.You must go to bed early, my dear— and I recommend a little gruel to you before you go.

你一定要早点睡觉, 亲爱的, 我建议你去之前吃点稀。机翻

8.They were more concerned with finding new recipes for gruel and not dying from a paper cut.

他们更关心的是寻找新的食谱，以及避免被纸割伤而命。机翻

9.You think maybe sitting alone with my thoughts for fifty-six hours has made gruel out of my brains?

你认为也许我独自一人思考了五十六个小时， 已经把我的大脑了稀？机翻

10.And while you'll see things like  cauliflower soup or barley gruel there's also a recipe for ferrous potion.

你会看到诸如花椰菜汤或大麦之类的东西，但也有铁药水的配方。机翻

11.The relief was inseparable from the workhouse and the gruel; and that frightened people.

济贫院和是分不开的。吓坏了人们。机翻

12.Scrooge, in dressing-gown, slippers, and nightcap, sits before a fire. He is eating from a bowl of gruel, and his face is scowling.

[斯克鲁奇穿着睡衣、拖鞋和睡帽，坐在火炉前。他正吃着一碗稀，脸色阴沉。

13.By heating small stones and dropping them into a mixture of water and seeds in the basket I could make gruel.

通过加热小石头并将它们放入篮子里水和种子的混合物中，我可以制作稀。机翻

14.Wipe your eyes with the cuffs of your jacket, and don't cry into your gruel; that's a very foolish action, Oliver.

以衣袖口拭目，莫哭；是一个非常愚蠢的行为，奥利弗。机翻

15.Gruel sandwiches. Gruel omelets. Nothing but gruel.

稀三明治。稀煎蛋卷。只有稀。机翻

16.Now, Olive was truly alone, save the continued kindness of the chief's wife and daughter, which she said sustained her more than any bit of gruel or handful of corn.

现在，奥莉薇真的是孤身一人了，除了酋长的妻子和女儿一直对她很好，她说比任何或一把玉米都更能支撑她。

17.Mrs. March gave the mother tea and gruel, and comforted her with promises of help, while she dressed the little baby as tenderly as if it had been her own.

马奇太太把茶和麦糊给那个可怜的妇人，并且安慰她，说还会来帮助她的。

18." Oh, certainly, sir! I'll just fetch a little sewing, and then I'll sit as long as you please. But you've caught cold: I saw you shivering, and you must have some gruel to drive it out."

“啊，当然可以，先生！我就去拿点针线来，然后你要我坐多久，都可以。可是你着凉啦。我看见你直哆嗦，你得喝点去去寒气。”

19.For, as he is making increasingly plain, Mr Monti's ideas on how to resolve it are significantly at odds with those of the Germans who have until now been doing most of the ordering—and choosing pretty thin gruel.

因为蒙蒂正愈发清晰地表明在如何解决危机的问题上他与那些德国人的想法大不相同——到目前为止，德国主要是作为发号施令者（此前德国一直认为只有欧元区各国统一标准、严守财政纪律，才能克服欧元区管理存在的结构性缺陷——译注），却没有给出什么有效的解决措施。

20.The gruel disappeared; the boys whispered each other, and winked at Oliver; while his next neighbors nudged him. Child as he was, he was desperate with hunger, and reckless with misery.

不见了；男孩们互相窃窃私语，向奥利弗使眼色。而他的下一个邻居则轻推他。尽管他还是个孩子，但他对饥饿感到绝望，对痛苦不顾一切。机翻