The old cooper, eaten up with ambition, was looking, they said, for a peer of France, to whom an income of three hundred thousand francs would make all the past, present, and future casks of the Grandets acceptable.

那个老箍桶匠被野心吞噬，据说他在个法国贵族，三百多万法郎的收入能让这位贵族接受葛朗台家过去、现在和未来的所有酒桶。

The hoops had burst, and it lay on the stones just outside the door of the wine shop, shattered like a walnut shell.

箍桶的铁条断裂了， 桶躺在酒铺门前的人行道上，像核桃壳样碎裂开来。

The author specifically lists in great detail who among these 10 marshals is the son of an innkeeper, who is the son of a farmer, who is the son of a leatherworker, and whose father is a cooper.

作者特别详细地列出了这 10 位元帅中谁是旅店老板的子，谁是农民的子， 谁是皮革工人的子，谁的父亲是箍桶匠。

Friends lent him books, the cooper opened his shop to him at night so that he could read by a fire of shavings, and schoolmaster Mentor Graham polished Lincoln's command of the English language.

朋友借给他书，箍桶匠在晚上为他开店，这样他就可以在刨花的火堆旁阅读，校长导师格雷厄姆 （Mentor Graham） 磨练了林肯的英语水平。

" As it is Eugenie's birthday you had better play loto all together, " said Pere Grandet: " the two young ones can join" ; and the old cooper, who never played any game, motioned to his daughter and Adolphe.

“既然今天是欧也妮的生日，你起玩乐透；”格朗台先生说：“两个年轻人也可以参加。”老箍桶匠从不玩游戏，但他向女和阿道夫示意。

The old cooper accompanied the banker to the front door.

老箍桶匠陪银行家走到前门。

First result aimed at by the old cooper!

老箍桶匠的第个目标！

The old cooper had calculated on the power of time, which, as he used to say, is a pretty good devil after all.

老箍桶匠算准了时间的力量，他常说，时间毕竟还是个不错的家伙。

" That's t-true; b-b-business is b-business, " said the cooper.

“那确实是真的；生意归生意，”箍桶匠说。

This cruel pity, recalling, as it did, a thousand pleasures to the heart of the old cooper, was for Nanon the sum total of happiness.

这种残酷的同情，勾起了老箍桶匠心中无数的快乐回忆，对于娜农来说，这就是全部的幸福。

However, during the two hours consecrated to digestion, the cooper, more facetious than he had ever been in his life, uttered a number of his own particular apothegms, —a single one of which will give the measure of his mind.

然而，在这两个用于消化的小时里，箍桶匠比他生中任何时候都要风趣，说出了许多他自己特有的格言——其中任何个都能反映出他的思维方式。

In all that concerned the business of the house of Guillaume Grandet the old cooper's intentions were fulfilled to the letter.

在纪尧姆·格朗台家的事务中，老箍桶匠的意愿都被严格执行。