I'd never heard him speak in that lambent tone before. Usually, it was I who teetered on the fringes of propriety.

来没听过他用这种机巧的语气说话。通常，是那个在得体与否的边缘踉踉跄跄的人。

On the mast already I see the light play of a lambent St. Elmo's fire; the outstretched sail catches not a breath of wind, and hangs like a sheet of lead.

已经在桅杆上看到了圣埃尔莫柔和的火；展开的帆没有一丝风， 像一张铅片一样悬挂着。

She was no longer the same as in the independent days, when her intellect played like lambent lightning over conventions and formalities which he at that time respected, though he did not now.

她不再是独立代的那个代，那她的才智像一道柔和的闪电，超越了他当所重的习俗和形式，尽管他现在不重了。

It was almost eleven when I said I was going to sleep and said goodnight to my parents and theguests. " What about Marzia? " asked my father, that unmistakable lambent look in his eyes. Tomorrow, I replied.

将近十一点，说自己要去睡觉了，便向父母和客人道晚安。“马尔齐亚怎么样？”父亲问，眼神中是确切无误的柔和。明天再说，回答。