It was a seaman, quite a little personage, so little as if he were a midshipman; but a midshipman it was not.

这是一个水手——一个相当小的人物，小得好像一个海军学生，不过他并不是一个海军学生。

Many great personages in the world history had deep affections for their homes.

世界上的许多名人都对家有深切的感情。

He was successfully supplanted for a while, at the beginning of the present century, by Buonaparte; but as process of time rendered the latter personage stale and ineffective the older phrase resumed its early prominence.

十九世纪初，他一度让拿破仑的名字给取代了。但是，随时间的推移，后者变得陈腐失效，从前那句老话又恢复了它原来的重要地位。

And not only important personages crave a good listener, but ordinary folk do too. As the Reader's Digest once said: " Many persons call a doctor when all they want is an audience" .

伊萨克·F。马科森是名记者，曾采访过上千人杰。他认为，大多数人没能给对方留下良好印象的原因，是他们当时没有倾听对方的诉说。 " 他们太注重自己想要表达的东西，却不把自己的耳朵张开… … 某些政要曾告诉我说，他们宁要优秀的倾听者，不要滔滔不绝的话匣子。似，倾听的能力较之其他任何良好的禀赋都更令人稀罕。" 不仅这些政要渴望一个好的倾听者，普通民众是如此。 就像读者文摘上说的：" 很多人去看医生，只是因为他们想找一个可以倾诉的人。"

The other was a small, slight–built personage, with a nervous, intelligent face, and bright eyes peering out from under eyebrows which he was incessantly twitching.

另外一个是一位带点神经质的人。这人又瘦又矮，看样子相当能干。他的眉头紧紧地皱，他的眼睛有时透过长长的睫毛，闪动犀利的目光，有时显得迷迷糊糊的，似没有看见。

How did this eccentric personage pass his time on the Mongolia?

那这位关在蒙古号船舱里的怪客到底在干些呢？

Such personages, I think, would please nobody, but the painter that made them.

我认为， 这样的人物不会取悦任何人，除了创造他们的画家。

He became the most imposing personage in the arrondissement.

他成了该区最具影响力的人物。

And both Hiroshima and Auschwitz sent forth a new type of personage.

广岛和奥斯威辛集中营都孕育了一种新型的人物。

We think of them as this collective personage almost.

我们几将他们视为一个整体人物。

And among all these great personages came Geissler on foot.

在所有这些伟大人物中， 盖斯勒步行而来。

Until now this personage had escaped the observation of the travelers.

到目前为止， 这个人物一直没有被旅行者发现。

" She has the Duke of Wellington, " said a military personage looking very important.

“她有威灵顿公爵。”一位显得威严的军方人士说道。

Consequently there was a great lawsuit between these two personages.

因此，这两个人物之间发生了一场大官司。

Such, at least, was the view of many eminent statesmen, including no less a personage than James G. Blaine. The difficulty, however, lay in maintaining gold and silver coins on a level which would permit them to circulate with equal facility.

这至少是许多杰出政治家的观点，其中不乏詹姆斯·G·布莱恩 (James G. Blaine) 等知名人士。然而，困难在于将金币和银币维持在一个水平上， 使它们能够以同样的便利流通。

He was regarded by the friends of the Union as rather a comical personage — a favorite subject for Punch to laugh at — with a bitter tongue and a mind enfeebled even more than common by the political epidemic of egotism.

联盟的朋友们认为他是一个相当滑稽的人物——潘趣最喜欢嘲笑的对象——嘴巴尖刻，思想因利己主义的政治流行病而更加虚弱。

He promised. 'But now about our public wedding, ' he said. 'Like certain royal personages, we shall have had the religious rite and the civil contract performed on independent occasions. Will you fix the day? When is it to be?

他答应了。 “但是现在关于我们的公开婚礼，”他说。 '像某些皇家人物一样，我们应该在独立的场合执行宗教仪式和民事合同。你会安排一天吗？它是时候？

The doctor is a formal sort of personage: he adjusts the plaits of his ruffles, and continually settles his frill whilst he is talking to you; and he thought my conduct beneath the dignity of a sensible man.

医生是一种正式的人物：他一边和你说话，一边调整他的褶边的辫子， 不断地整理他的褶边；他认为我的行为有损一个明智人的尊严。

Silas was delighted with the amiability of this great personage; but his mind soon returned upon its gloomy preoccupations; for not even the favour of a Prince to a Republican can discharge a brooding spirit of its cares.

塞拉斯对这位伟大人物的和蔼可亲感到很高兴。但他的思绪很快又回到了忧郁的事情上。因为即使是亲王对共和党人的宠爱无法消除其忧虑的忧虑。

Giving the waiter to the personage before mentioned, as a block-head duly qualified for that consignment, Mr. Harthouse hurried into the gallery. A young woman whom he had never seen stood there. Plainly dressed, very quiet, very pretty.

哈特豪斯先生把侍者交给了前面提到的那位人物，作为一个有资格接受这批货物的笨蛋，他匆匆走进了画廊。一个他从未见过的年轻女子站在那里。穿朴素，很安静，很漂亮。