Mrs. Mears was still in that stage of development when her countrywomen taste to the full the peril of being exposed to the gaze of the licentious Gaul.

米尔斯夫人还处于那发展阶段，那时的同胞们已经充分体验在放荡的高卢人注下的危险。

She was a Little Russian, intriguing and sly, endowed, like many of her countrywomen, with a very simple and even stupid exterior, from which she knew how to extract the maximum of advantage.

小俄罗斯人，既迷人又狡猾，像的许多乡下女人一样，天生具有非常简单甚至愚蠢的外表，知道如何从中获取最大的优势。