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.

把书在花钵行列之间排开——一大排幼儿园用四开本大书翻了开来，露出了一些色彩鲜艳鸟儿、野兽和鱼形象，美丽动人。

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

们对于莎翁长相想法是以《第一对开本》这幅版画为依据。

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

以前在法国出版过一部八开本书，共两册，书名为：《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.

两本人开本著作《神秘》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，他们将组成两本八开本，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，这种册子称为四开本。

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

要拥有那些页面干净四开本， 会卖掉外套。

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.

们主要依赖于他几位朋友在他去世后编纂一部剧本集——约翰·明斯和亨利·康德尔，他们从旧剧本文本、笔记、四开本和其他演员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，垫子上放着一本对开本， 可能是英格兰编年史，或者其他类似大量文学作品； 就像在们自己日子里， 们把镀金书籍散落在中央桌子上， 由随意客人翻阅。

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.

这里能看到所有书籍都是大到无法偷走对开本——一些放在角落里一张厚重橡木桌上，一些放在地板上图片中间，全部与旧外套、帽子、雨伞和手杖混在一起。

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.

他欢迎下雨日子，因为在雨天他可以待在家里而不必担心良心问题，用蛋清和胶水罐度过一个下午，修补一些破旧四开本俄罗斯皮革。

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.

今天巨头们有机会拥有这份金融领域第一对开本。这本由拍卖行提供初版书籍，将于6月12日在纽约以原羊皮装订形式出售。

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.

他同行剧作家本·琼森在《第一对开本》（莎士比亚戏剧首次出版版本）序言中恰到好处地写道，他不属于一个时代，而是属于所有时代。

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

“想它们是那些沉重， 先生，” 奥利弗指着一些大四开本说， 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.

她最终领着走过一排又一排书架，来到图书馆一个角落， 从书架上取下一本大开本书。

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《第一对开本》，这本书属于牛津大学博德利图书馆， 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（眼前还保存着它）一本对开本合集， 出自上个世纪一手好手。

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

这首诗前缀是 1623 年出版莎士比亚戏剧第一对开本。

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，当们读到西德尼在放弃完成《阿卡迪亚》无望尝试之前所写最后一页时，们停顿了一会儿，然后将这本对开本放回了最层书架上。

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

这个早期四开本有时被称为《罗密欧与朱丽叶》劣质四开本。