It told me things about him I never knew to ask.

切或许始于他抵达不久后有次磨人的午餐。当时他坐在我旁边，我总算注意到，尽管那年夏初，在西西短暂逗留时，他晒得有点棕褐色，但掌心和脚底、喉咙、前臂内侧都是样的白皙、柔嫩，因为都没怎么晒过太阳。几乎是淡粉色的，像蜥蜴腹部样光亮平滑。私密、纯洁、青涩，就像运动员脸上的红晕，或是暴风雨夜之后的抹黎明曙光。这些透露出的是我死也不会去问的事。

Step into the rose-coloured light of the Church of the Jacobins and gaze up at the incredible vaulted palm that rises over the final resting place of Thomas Aquinas.

走进雅各宾教堂，感受面玫瑰色灯光，凝视上方令人难以置信的拱形掌心从汤玛斯阿奎最后安息之地升起。

He put his two hands together and felt the palms.

他上双手，摸摸掌心。

An adult will fit in the palm of your hand.

成年候可以放进人的掌心。

Place your palm downward and make an inconspicuous waving gesture, which will produce instant and satisfying results.

掌心向下，做个不显眼的手势，会产生即时的满意效果。

But these man-made effigies hold the kaleidoscope of time, stopped in their hands.

人为重现的镜像拥有扭曲时间的魔力，时间在他们的掌心静止。

It's a tiny thing, it can just go in the palm of your hand.

就这样个小小的作品，能放在你的掌心。

The flower sat there, opening and closing its petals, like some bizarre, many-lipped oyster.

莉莉等她靠近能看清楚后，张开了手掌，那朵花在她的掌心开，像是只有许多开口的奇怪牡蛎。

A water person passing by doused them with water from his hand.

路过的水族男士从掌心喷出水柱，朝他们浇去。

Three times he slipped through our fingers.

在巴黎他三次逃过我们的掌心。

To tame flyaway hair, rub a drop of olive or safflower oil in your palms and then run your fingers through your hair.

要处理凌乱的头发，在掌心滴滴橄榄油或红花油，然后手指输过头发。

The good thing is no sleeves. - Yeah. - As you can see. - Nothing up the sleeve. - Genuinely. Genuinely going into... - The palm of your hand. - Into the palm of the hand.

好在没有袖子。- 是的。- 如你所见。- 袖子这什么都没有。- 真。真正进入… … - 你的手掌。- 落入掌心。

She was shifting her weight nervously from foot to foot, staring at Harry, beating her wand against her empty palm and breathing heavily As he watched her, Harry felt horribly powerless without his own wand.

她不安地左右摇晃着身体，用魔杖敲打着空空的掌心盯着哈利，呼吸急促。哈利看着她时，觉得自己离了魔杖真是束手无策。

Mind you, the area of sky you see here is roughly the same as the apparent size of a grain of sand held in your palm with your arm outstretched.

请注意，你在这看到的天空面积，大致相当于你伸出手臂捧在掌心的粒沙子的表面大小。

" Then why on earth didn't you say so? " she cried, and so intense was her exasperation that she drove her sharp nails into the skin of his wrist.

“那你为什么不早说？”她叫道。她非常懊恼，尖指甲竞抠进了他的掌心。

Depicted on the flat gravestone was the figure of a man standing with his hands together at the thumbs, palms facing outward, referencing the interred person's charitable nature.

在平坦的墓碑上描绘了个男人的形象，他站在起，双手拇指并拢站立，掌心朝外，象征着被葬者的慈善本性。

A fortune-teller of course would look at once for the lines on the palm of the hand, but the palm of this hand has been left unworked.

算命师肯定首先想看看他的掌纹，但这只手的掌心片空白。

Tops of the thighs rolled down as the heart lifts up. I'm going to interlace the fingertips here and inhale and press the palms forward.

大腿尽量贴向地面，身体挺直。我将双手交叉，吸气，掌心向前。

In kitchens across the land black women stitched grey cotton, or poured soda into the crease of a palm to make biscuits.

在全国各地的厨房，黑人妇女缝制着灰色的棉花，或者把苏打水倒在掌心的皱褶做饼干。

She was shifting her weight nervously from foot to foot, staring at Harry, beating her wand against her empty palm and breathing heavily.

她不安地左右摇晃着身体，用魔杖敲打着空空的掌心盯着哈利，呼吸急促。