To possess those clean-paged quartos I would have sold my coat.

要拥有那些页面干净的开本， 我会卖掉我的外。

Often has my heart ached with regret for those quartos.

我常常为那些开本而后悔不已。

Many of the tombs had been robbed and left open to the sky.

【open】这些墓有许多被盗，在露天下大敞开的。

The account of the French taxes, which takes up three volumes in quarto, may be regarded as perfectly authentic.

法国税收的账目占开本三卷， 可以说是完全真实的。

In France I had published a two–volume work, in quarto, entitled The Mysteries of the Great Ocean Depths.

在法国， 我出版了本两卷本的开本，题为《大洋深的奥秘》。

Between the rose bowls the books were duly set out–a row of nursery quartos opened invitingly each at some gaily coloured image of beast or fish or bird.

把书在花钵的行列之间排开——大排幼儿园用的开本大书翻了开来，露出了些色彩鲜艳的鸟儿、野兽和鱼的形象，美丽动人。

Sophie saw the Giant straighten up again and she saw him poke the trumpet in through the upstairs window of the room where the Goochey children were sleeping.

苏菲看见，巨人直起身板，把喇叭捅进大敞开的顶楼窗子，古齐家的孩子正在熟睡。

'I suppose they are those heavy ones, sir, ' said Oliver, pointing to some large quartos, with a good deal of gilding about the binding.

“我想它们是那些沉重的， 先生，” 奥利弗指着些大的开本说， 装订有多镀金。

It poured itself out, higgledy-piggledy, in torrents of rhyme and prose, poetry and philosophy which stand congealed in quartos and folios that nobody ever reads.

它以韵律和散文、诗歌和哲学的洪流倾泻而出，杂乱无章，凝结在没人读过的开本和对开本中。

The author of a two–volume work, in quarto, on The Mysteries of the Great Ocean Depths has no excuse for not setting sail with Commander Farragut.

两卷本开本《大洋深之谜》的作者没有理由不与法拉格特指挥官起起航。

What was the good of all this fuss about an old quarto, bound in rough calf, a yellow, faded volume, with a ragged seal depending from it?

对本旧开本大惊小怪有什么好，它是用粗糙的小牛皮装订的， 是本黄色、褪色的书，上面有个破旧的印章？

He welcomed wet days because on them he could stay at home without pangs of conscience and spend the afternoon with white of egg and a glue-pot, patching up the Russia leather of some battered quarto.

他欢迎下雨的日子，因为在雨天他可以待在家里而不必担心良心的问题，用蛋清和胶水罐度过个下午，修补些破旧的开本的俄罗斯皮革。

There were to be seen ranged on oaken shelves an innumerable army, or rather a grand assembly, of books in duodecimo, in octavo, in quarto, in folio, clad in calf, sheep, morocco leather, in parchment and in pigskin.

在橡木书架上可以看到无数的书籍，或者更确切地说是个盛大的集会，书籍有十二开本、八开本、开本、对开本，覆盖着小牛皮、绵羊皮、摩洛哥皮革、羊皮纸和猪皮。