This ominous tool she presented to Miss Scatcherd with a respectful curtesy; then she quietly, and without being told, unloosed her pinafore, and the teacher instantly and sharply inflicted on her neck a dozen strokes with the bunch of twigs.

恭敬地向斯卡查德小姐这件不祥工具；然后悄悄地，没有被告知，解围裙，老师立即用那束树枝在脖子猛烈地敲十几下。