Cian's exit seems to have destabilized the dowager empress.

慈安的退出似乎动摇了慈禧太后。

Lady Grantham — the dowager, that is — has been concerned that your history here has left you lonely.

格兰瑟姆夫人，也就老夫人，担心你因为过去的经历被孤立。

In the decades, since the empress dowager's reputation has been on a wild ride from a figure of revulsion.

在过去的几十年里，慈禧太后的名声一直处于疯狂的状态，一个令人厌恶的人物。

Atlanta, like all Southern towns, had its share of dowagers whom no one cared to cross.

亚特兰大像所有南部其他城市一样，也有一些有钱的贵女人，她们谁也碰不得的。

The slightly kinder reading is that the dowager empress was hamstrung by convention unable to pick anyone older.

稍微温和一点的解，太后被传统束缚，无法挑选年龄大的人。

Yehenara Tsing, better known as dowager empress Cixi was as clever as she was ambitious.

叶赫那拉氏，广为人知的名字慈禧太后，她既聪明又雄心勃勃。

Yet for all the undoubted good, she did there was also a dark side to the dowager empress.

然，慈禧太后做了无可置疑的好事，但她也有黑暗的一面。

Little by litte, she became a dowager, but her health was going downhill.

渐渐地，她成了一名富孀，但她的健康每况愈下。

They were gone some time, and Cecil was left with the dowagers.

他们离开了一段时间， 塞西尔和遗孀们在一起。

" I bet that makes the dowagers shed their false teeth, " I said.

“我敢打赌， 这会让太后们掉掉他们的假牙， ” 我说。

The two proud dowagers, Lady Lynn and Lady Ingram, confabulate together.

林恩夫人和英格拉姆夫人这两位骄傲的太后在一起交谈。

The young lady thus claimed as the dowager’s special property, reiterated her question with an explanation.

小姐如此声称太后的特殊财产，并解释了一遍她的问题。

Even bejewelled dowagers sound like scolding parents from 2018, with one calling a daughter gutless for failing to ask Qianlong for a promotion.

即使珠光宝气的贵妇，也像2018年的家长，责怪女儿没胆量，没能向乾隆提出晋升。

On the other hand, we have the recently elevated dowager empress Cixi and Ci'an with a bit of secret help from xianfeng's brother Prince Gong.

另一方面，有最近晋升的慈禧太后和慈安，她们获得咸丰弟弟恭亲王的秘密帮助。

People congratulated Mrs. Honeychurch, which is, I believe, a social blunder, but it pleased her, and she introduced Cecil rather indiscriminately to some stuffy dowagers.

人们向霍尼彻奇夫人表示祝贺，我认为这一种社交失误，但这让她很高兴，她相当不加区别地把塞西尔介绍给了一些古板的贵妇人。

The affable dowager declared herself delighted with this opportunity of making Mr. Lydgate's acquaintance, having heard of his success in treating fever on a new plan.

和蔼可亲的太后宣布，她很高兴有机会结识利德盖特先生，因为她听说他采用新方案成功治疗了发烧。

The girls who had all known Charles were very kind and attentive to her at these gatherings, especially Fanny Elsing and Maybelle Merriwether, the daughters of the town dowagers.

这两个组织中那些认识查尔斯的姑娘们，尤其本城两位富翁的女儿范妮·埃尔辛和梅贝尔·梅里韦瑟，对她都很亲近，也十分照顾。

Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge overdressed dowagers and tedious academicians, I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me.

好吧，我在房间里待了大约十分钟，与衣冠楚楚的贵妇人和乏味乏味的院士交谈后，我突然意识到有人在看着我。

As she heard her fly up the stairs, two at a time, she paused, hairpin in mid-air, realizing that something must be wrong, for Melanie always moved as decorously as a dowager.

接着，她听见媚兰两步并作一步飞快地跑上楼来，便不禁拿着发夹愣住了，心想一定出了什么事，因为媚兰像个贵夫人那样一贯从容缓步的。

She was, as the dowagers said, such an excellent and wholesome example to the young girls of the town. And, because she made no parade of her virtues the young girls did not resent her.

老年妇女都说，她为城里的姑娘们树立了榜样，她们的楷模，因为她并不炫耀自己的美德，年轻姑娘们也没有对她不满。