I've brought an old book-he'd written down some of his mother's recipes.

我有本，他写下他母亲食谱。

In 1863, Professor Otto Lindenbrock found a secret message in an old book he had recently bought.

1863年，教授奥拓·林登布朗克在他新买一本中发现了一个秘密信息。

This is a queer old book I picked up at a stall yesterday

这是我昨天在摊子上偶然买到一本珍奇。

Yeah, he's a rare book and photography dealer.

yeah, 他是 Rare Book 和摄影交易商。 注：此处 " Rare Book" 通常进行翻译，因为它指是珍本或，在中文语境中也常使用这一英文表达。如果需要完全翻译，则可以译为“他是珍本和摄影交易商。”

The scent of the old tomes was home to him.

那些气味对他而言就是家。

Don't worry, you won't have to spend these sunny days in a dark basement studying a dusty tome.

用担，用在这阳光明媚日子里，在黑地下室里研究一本布满灰尘。

The ideal blueprint depicted by the sages in ancient books is impossible to realize in reality.

中圣贤们描绘理想蓝图，在现实中是可能实现。

" We got lost in a tomb, " said Jack. " But we were saved by an ancient book."

“我们在坟墓里迷路了，”杰克说。 “但我们是被一本救了。”

This included Roman history and poetry, which were preserved in ancient books copied out by the monks.

这包括罗马历史和诗歌，它们保存在僧侣抄写中。

The D.H.C. looked at him nervously. There were those strange rumours of old forbidden books hidden in a safe in the Controller's study.

主任紧张地望着他。有一些离奇谣言，说是总统斋一个保险箱里藏着一些被禁止。

The castle's library was dark, but the king knew what he was looking for: an ancient book filled with knowledge from centuries past.

城堡图馆漆黑一片，但国王知道他要找东西：一本，上面记载着几个世纪以前医治魔法创伤办法。

Listen, having a rare book dealer for a father just really gets you off on a good foot for your backgrounds.

听，有个商当爸爸真让在背景这方面占尽优势。

As desertification and war impoverished the region, families held on to the ancient books even as they faced desperate poverty and near-starvation.

随着荒漠化和战争使该地区陷入贫困，即使面临极度贫困和几近饥饿情况，许多家庭仍保留着这些。

In vain they lit their furnaces, and in vain they studied their crabbed books, called up the dead, and conjured ghastly spirits.

他们徒劳地点燃了他们炉子， 他们徒劳地研究了他们， 召唤了死者， 并召唤了可怕灵魂。

You know, I read an old book where a culture was not allowed to mix two kinds of cloth, and maybe that's because they wear out really quickly.

知道吗， 我读过一本， 里面提到一个文化允许混合两种布料，或许是因为它们磨损得特别快。

Browse the vintage books and posters in Plaza de Armas, then take the short walk to Plaza de la Catedral where fortunes are told and salsa spills from beneath the arches.

在阿玛斯广场浏览和海报，然后走一小段路到大教堂广场，在那里有算命地方，人们也会在拱门下跳萨尔萨舞。

By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal.

如一本中所说，他们被通常称为“需求”一种命运表象所支配，储存蛾子和锈蚀会使之腐坏、贼人会进入偷窃财富。

You don't, you absolutely don't have to believe in the deities of the ancient books to know that spiritual longing is real, and that humanity is steeped in the sublime.

必，绝对必相信中那些神灵存在，就能知道精神上渴望是真实，人类沉浸在崇高之中。

Magic is a great thing and scarcely any one knows anything about it except a few people in old books—and Mary a little, because she was born in India where there are fakirs.

魔法是一件伟大事情，除了上少数人之外，几乎没有人对它一无所知——玛丽略知一二，因为她出生在有苦行僧印度。

Every night since she'd acquired a box of valuable tomes in Latin, Audrey had observed a gaunt figure detach itself from the shadows and follow her to the station where it vanished in the crowd.

自从她得到了一箱珍贵拉丁文以来，每个晚上她都会看到一个瘦削身影从阴影中出现并跟着她到车站，在那里它消失在人群中。