The boy looked him up and down dubiously. " Are you certain? You don't look very knightly" .
男孩怀疑地上下打量," 没骗吧?你看上去可不像骑士。"
Both Vespasia's family and the gens Flavia were equestrian families, the second highest class within Roman society, being equivalent to the gentry or knightly class in later times but below the patrician class, the Roman aristocracy.
维斯帕西娅家族和弗拉维亚氏族都是马术世家,是罗马社会第二高阶层,相当于后来的士绅或骑士阶层,但低于贵族阶层即罗马贵族。
To come into the warm enclosed place after the pantheistic animal feeling without, was to reassume some absurd and impressive knightly name, as thunderous as spurred boots in war, as football cleats on the cement of a locker-room floor.
在泛神论动物感觉不在之后进入温暖封闭的地方,就是重新获得一些荒谬而令印象刻的骑士名字,就像战争中带刺的靴子一样雷鸣般,就像更衣室地板上的足球鞋钉一样。
His talk, however, was not particularly knightly; it was light and easy and friendly; it took a practical turn, and he asked a number of questions about herself—what were her tastes—if she liked this and that—what were her habits.
然而,他的谈话并不是特别有骑士风。它轻巧、简单、友好;事情发生了一个实际的转变,他问了一些关于她自己的问题——她的品味如何——她是否喜欢这个和那个——她的习惯是什么。