I reflected, while I chatted with the woman I had been asked to " take in, " that civilised man practises a strange ingenuity in wasting on tedious exercises the brief span of his life.

我一边和一位叫我" 陪同" 的女客随便闲谈，一边思忖：文明社会这样消磨自己的心智，把短促的生命浪费在无聊的应酬上实在令人莫解。

Scolding, spanking, shaming him, reiterating that the parents didn't want him to do it — none of these things kept the bed dry. So the parents asked: " How can we make this boy want to stop wetting his bed" ?

责骂，打屁股，羞辱… … 一切都无济于事，小男孩照样。 这夫妇思忖：怎样才可以促使儿子夜晚睡觉呢？

'What a fresh and pure daughter of nature that dairymaid is! ' thought Angel.

“那个女工多么娇嫩纯洁，真是大自然的女儿啊！”他思忖道。

" They don't talk of anything else, " thought Scarlett.

" 他们怎么谈点别的呢？" 思嘉暗自思忖。" 光是谈内战，老是谈内战，除了内战，什么都谈。

That's the theme of David Halberstam's latest book called The Reckoning.

这就是大卫·哈伯斯坦新书《思忖》的主题。

We sat in silence, pondering on the full meaning of those sad, sad words.

我们默默地坐着，思忖着那些非常非常悲伤的话语中的全部含义。

" Where to start? " you think to yourself gloomily.

“从哪里开始呢？”你忧郁地暗自思忖。

Be empathetic. Ask yourself what it is the other person really wants.

3。同，思忖的真正所需。

" What do you think she's written about us? " Envy wondered from Headquarters.

“你觉得她我们有什么看法？”慕慕在大脑总部思忖道。

She remained thinking, then said to herself that she would not go out that afternoon, but would work hard at the baby's unfinished lovely plaid frock, cut on the cross in the newest fashion.

她在那儿思忖起来，然后自己说，下午出去了，而是加紧给孩子缝那件还没完工的格子花连衣裙，那是按最新式样角剪裁的，非常可爱。

Eliza stood, for a moment, contemplating this unfavorable aspect of things, which she saw at once must prevent the usual ferry-boat from running, and then turned into a small public house on the bank, to make a few inquiries.

伊丽莎站了一会儿，思忖着这一利况，她一看就明白，渡船肯定无法照常运行。她转身走进岸边一家小客栈，想在那里打探一下。

The gentle noises of night soon made him sleep, but not for long. Most of the night he lay down and looked up the stars, thinking.

夜晚柔和的噪音很快使他睡着了，但并没睡多久。他几乎整个晚上躺在地上，仰望星空，思忖着。

Now, when the income was shrunk to $20. though, they were thinking seriously of contracting to a modest and unassuming D.

他的收入缩减到二十美元，“迪林厄姆”的字母也显得模糊清，似乎它们正严肃地思忖着是否缩写成谦逊而又讲求实际的字母D。

" It's a mask of some sort, " thought Caspian. " Or perhaps I'm in a fever and imagining it all."

“这准是一种特殊的面具。”凯斯宾思忖，“要然就是我发烧产生的幻觉。”

Everyone digests this silently for a few seconds.

每个人都默默地思忖了几秒钟。

Who has not wondered if he could learn to play the Moonlight Sonata, at least the easy beginning part?

谁没有思忖着自己能否学会演奏《月光》奏鸣曲，哪怕是开头容易的那部分？

'How dreary this is! ' He thought to himself. But here were the treasures he was searching for.

“这多沉闷啊！”他思忖着。殊知这正是他寻找的宝藏。

'I know they're talking nonsense, ' Alice thought to herself, 'and there really isn't anything to cry about.'

爱丽丝思忖着，“我清楚他们在胡言乱语，过确实没什么好哭的。”

He did so, revolving in his mind the extreme poverty to which the poor man must be reduced.

客人照他的吩咐做了。理发匠贫困潦倒如此，让来客思忖良久。

And so you think, well, how can I blame the other person for something that they did?

于是你思忖，唉，他们做的事，我怎能怪罪于人呢？