“I know, ” I said, meaning both things: yes, most of it was good—okay anyway, serviceable—and yes, he had only taken out the bad parts. “I won't do it again.”

“我知道，”我知道有两层意思：的确，大部分还不错——OK，总之说得过去——还有，的确，他只是删除了不好的部分。“我不会再犯了。”

Mrs. Gardiner and the children were to remain in Hertfordshire a few days longer, as the former thought her presence might be serviceable to her nieces.

嘉丁纳太太和她的孩子们还要在哈福德郡多待几天，因为她觉得，待在这里可以让外甥女们多一个帮手。

" Parsee, " said he to the guide, " you have been serviceable and devoted. I have paid for your service, but not for your devotion. Would you like to have this elephant? He is yours" .

" 帕西人，" 他对向导说，" 你做，为人忠诚。我给了你应得的工资，可是我还没有报答你的忠诚呢。你要这头象吗？它归你了。"

Many may not think of cats as serviceable sailors, or cooperative companions of any kind.

许多人可不认为猫是有用的水手，或任何形式的合作伙伴。

It is about the size of a robin, has short crisp wings serviceable for flying either in water or air, and a tail of moderate size slanted upward, giving it, with its nodding, bobbing manners, a wrennish look.

它大约有知更鸟那么大，有短而脆的翅膀，适合在水中或空中飞行，尾巴中等大小，向上倾斜，使它以点头、摆动的方式看起来像扭扭捏捏的样子。

It is at the end of its serviceable life.

它的使用寿命即将结束。

My right arm was tolerably restored; disfigured, but fairly serviceable.

则恢复得相当不错， 虽有瑕疵，但已相当实用。

And then when you're done, it's like a serviceable shack.

然后当你完工时，它就像个勉强用的棚屋。

Like, no, this is a guy who's already a very serviceable route runner.

喜欢，不，这家伙已经是一个非常称职的路线跑者了。

I think for me, the mystery itself was fine and serviceable.

我认为对我来说，这个谜团本身还不错，算是中规中矩。

He is a serviceable wide receiver too for his team.

他也是一名出色的外接手。

Presently appeared a short, slight woman of middle age, plainly dressed in serviceable grey.

不久, 出现了一位身材矮小, 身材苗条的中年妇女, 穿着朴素的灰色衣服。

The girl was more than the bright serviceable creature he had thought her.

这个女孩不仅仅是他想象中的聪明的人。

Lucie, my child, if ever you were brave and serviceable in your life—and you were always both—you will compose yourself now, to do exactly as I bid you; for more depends upon it than you can think, or I can say.

露西，我的孩子，假如你一生中有过勇敢而有助益的时刻——你一向如此——那么现在你就镇定下来，照我吩咐的去做；因为这比你所想象的，我说出的，关系更为重大。

Near Kippings Cross, on the main Ton-bridge road, she repeated as tactics what she had by accident found serviceable: she pulled up for lunch at a wayside hut. But this time luck was lacking in the service.

在 Kippings Cross 附近，在 Ton-bridge 的主要道路上，她重复了她偶然发现有用的策略：她在路边的小屋里停下来吃午饭。但这次服务缺乏运气。

His gold-headed cane, too, —a serviceable staff, of dark polished wood, —had similar traits, and, had it chosen to take a walk by itself, would have been recognized anywhere as a tolerably adequate representative of its master.

他的金头手杖——一根有用的手杖，深色抛光木头——具有相似的特征，而且，如果它选择自己散步，在任何地方都会被认为是它主人的一个可以容忍的适当代表。

There were no secrecies, for instance, about the customs and habits of the valley population, and Conway, who was interested, had talks which might have been worked up into a quite serviceable degree thesis.

例如，关于山谷居民的习俗和习惯，没有任何秘密，感兴趣的康威进行了谈话，这些谈话可已经成为一篇非常有用的学位论文。

There is, perhaps, but one set of men in the whole commonwealth to whom the bounty either was or could be essentially serviceable. These were the corn merchants, the exporters and importers of corn.

或许，在整个联邦中，只有一组人的赏金在本质上对或可对他们有用。这些是玉米商人，玉米的出口商和进口商。

It is therefore impossible to conjecture by what serviceable gradations the one could have been converted into the other, but it by no means follows from this that such gradations have not existed.

因此，不可推测一个可以通过何种有用的等级转变为另一种，但决不由此得出这样的等级不存在的结论。

The introduction of a substantial government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available, with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation over enterprise in the United States.

对所有交易征收大量的政府转移税可被证明是最有效的改革，以减轻美国投机对企业的主导地位。