Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern readers have little use for the richly upholstered Vicwardian prose in which he specialized.

在他去世之前，新闻业味早已改变很长时间了，而且他所擅长措词维多利亚爱德时期散文风格对后现代读者没有什么用处。

He verges on whimsy at times, and there are purple patches: “A russet moon rose tonight, its reflection in the shattered lake ice like a blood-red Host on a wounded altar.”

他总会萌生些奇妙念头，附上辞藻句子：“今夜，一轮黄褐色明月升起，倒影在破冰湖面，就像那破败祭坛上血红圣人。”

Well, someplace with a vibrant theater scene...

一个拥有剧院地方。

The king was wearing a magnificent gold crown.

国王戴着金冠。

He's dispensed with finery and removed his princely jewellery.

他已脱掉了衣饰，摘掉了珠宝。

Not far away, another litter has made a grand entrance into the world.

在不远处，有一小窝狗狗来到这个世上。

The vast rose windows and the many ornate sculptures guarding its exterior.

巨大玫瑰花窗和许多雕塑保护着它外观。

No one would call it " wheely" flashy.

没人会叫它“轮子”。

Does that mean the writing is on the wall for all European royals, with their magnificent uniforms and majestic lifestyles?

是否意味着所有衣着、生活高贵欧洲皇室成员将有大难了？

Only a few ornate tiles remained on the walls.

墙上只剩几块瓷砖。

And the little princess stood in her fine white dress, in a window, and let herself be stared at; she had neither a train nor a golden crown, but splendid red morocco shoes.

那位小公主身着一身白裙站在窗子里面，让大家来看她。她既没有拖着裙裾，也没有戴金王冠，但是她穿着一双红色摩洛哥皮皮鞋。

A home is more than window dressing.

房屋不仅仅是一个外表。

Trying to recreate their designs would have been futile. So instead, I applied my own eccentric approach. Using glitter, I drew similar intricate patterns onto the velvet cape. This ended up in the glamorous, luminous look that concluded the show.

试图复制她们设计是徒劳。所以我采用了自己独特方式。用亮片在天鹅绒斗篷上画出类似复杂图案。最终呈现出、璀璨效果，成为秀场压轴。

State visits are supposed to be about pomp and pageantry.

国事访问本应该是壮观。

" Marble palace, green robes made of silk, magnificent turban — you are a sultan."

“大理石宫殿，绿色丝绸长袍，头巾——你是苏丹。”

The AKTC is now taking on the most ambitious project yet: a 106-acre site in Hyderabad, where seven stepwells were built by the Qutb Shabi dynasty in ornate, white-plastered granite.

在海德拉巴占地106英亩土地上，库特布沙比王朝在白色石膏花岗岩上建造了7口阶梯井。

She loved gaudy and expensive jewelry but she had an uneasy feeling that everyone was saying, with perfect truth, that this ring was vulgar. The central stone was a four-carat diamond and, surrounding it, were a number of emeralds.

虽然她是那到喜欢贵重首饰，不过她仿佛觉得大家都说这只戒指很俗气，也确实俗气，所以她感到有些不安，当中是一颗四克拉钻石，周围有一圈绿宝石。

The idea that " bad" novels could poison someone's thinking, could plant roots in the recesses of her brain only to send out shoots of florid prose years later, was an alarming one.

“不好”小说可以毒害一个人思想，可以在她大脑深处扎下根来，要几年后才能文思泉涌，写出散文，这种想法令人担忧。

And I can come up with a fancy word that's gonna make me sound a whole lot smarter than I actually am, but...the one word I keep coming back to is..." Okay."

我可以想出非常辞藻，可以让我听起来比实际上聪明百倍，但… … 有一个词不断地出现在我脑海里，那就是… … “好好”。

The sight of The White Rabbit, splendidly dressed in his best clothes, and carrying a large fan and a pair of white leather gloves was enough to stop Alice's tears.

爱丝看着白兔，穿着衣服，拿着一把大扇子和一双白色皮手套，她眼泪立刻就止住了。