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——一大排幼儿园用的四本大书翻了来，露出了一些色彩鲜艳的鸟儿、野兽鱼的形象，美丽动人。

Our idea of what he looked like is based on the engraving in the " First Folio."

我们对于莎翁长相的想法是以《第一对本》这幅版画为依据的。

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

我以前在法国出版过一本的书，共两册，书名为：《海底的神秘》。

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.

两本人本的著作《海底的神秘》的作者。不能不跟法拉古司令一同出发。

It is announced that they will form two octavo volumes of six hundred pages each.

据宣布，他们将组成两本本，每本六百页。

It was published in a small book called a quarto.

它被收在一本小册子中，这种册子称为四本。

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

要拥有那些页面干净的四本， 我会卖掉我的外套。

We are largely reliant on a folio  of his plays compiled by a couple of his friends - John Heminges and  Henry Condell - after his death, who sourced the texts from old prompt books, notes, quartos and the memories of other actors.

我们主要依赖于他的几位朋友在他去世后编纂的一剧本集——约翰·海明利·康德尔，他们从旧剧本文本、笔记、四本其他演员的记忆中获取了这些资料。

Here, on the cushion, lay a folio tome, probably of the Chronicles of England, or other such substantial literature; even as, in our own days, we scatter gilded volumes on the centre-table, to be turned over by the casual guest.

在这里，垫子上放着一本对本， 可能是英格兰编年史，或者其他类似的大量文学作品； 就像在我们自己的日子里， 我们把镀金的书籍散落在中央的桌子上， 由随意的客人翻阅。

All the books visible here were folios too big to be stolen—some lying on a heavy oak table in one corner, some on the floor among the pictures, the whole intermingled with old coats, hats, umbrellas, and walking-sticks.

这里能看到的所有书籍都是大到无法偷走的对本——一些放在角落里一张厚重的橡木桌上，一些放在地板上的图片中间，全与旧外套、帽子、雨伞手杖混在一起。

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，用蛋清胶水罐度过一个下午，修补一些破旧的四本的俄罗皮革。

Today's moguls have a chance to own this first folio of finance Christ is the auction house is offering a first edition in the original vellum binding for sale in New York on June 12th.

今天的巨头们有机会拥有这份金融领域的第一对本。这本由拍卖行提供的初版书籍，将于6月12日在纽约以原羊皮装订的形式出售。

His fellow playwright, Ben Johnson, writing in the preface to the first published edition of Shakespeare's plays, the First Folio, put it neatly, he was not of an age, but for all time.

他的同行剧作家本·琼森在《第一对本》（莎士比亚戏剧首次出版的版本）的序言中恰到好处地写道，他不属于一个时代，而是属于所有的时代。

'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，” 奥利弗指着一些大的四本说， 装订处有很多镀金。

She finally led me past row after row of books, to a corner of the library where she pulled an oversized book off the shelf.

她最终领着我走过一排又一排的书架，来到图书馆的一个角落， 从书架上取下一本大本的书。

Wildgoose bound a copy of Shakespeare's First Folio, which belonged to the Bodleian Library in Oxford and was chained to the reference shelf.

野鹅装订了一本莎士比亚的《第一对本》，这本书属于牛津大学的博德利图书馆， 被锁在参考书架上。

It was (I still have it before my eyes) a collection in folio, written in a good hand of last century.

那是（我眼前还保存着它）一本对本合集， 出自上个世纪的一手好手。

This poem was prefixed to the first folio of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623.

这首诗的前缀是 1623 年出版的莎士比亚戏剧第一对本。

Thus when we come to the last page that Sidney wrote before he gave up the hopeless attempt to finish the Arcadia, we pause for a moment before we return the folio to its place on the bottom shelf.

因此，当我们读到西德尼在放弃完成《阿卡迪亚》的无望尝试之前所写的最后一页时，我们停顿了一会儿，然后将这本对本放回了最底层的书架上。

This early quarto is sometimes called the bad quarto of Romeo and Juliet.

这个早期的四本有时被称为《罗密欧与朱丽叶》的劣质四本。