He brushed his brown curls back from his forehead, and taking up a lute, let his fingers stray across the cords.

他把自己的棕色卷发从前额朝后掠去，随后拿起一只琵琶，让手指随便地在弦上着。

He was humming merrily as he stoked the fire.

他一着炉火，一快乐地哼着小曲儿。

As he worked, the mariachi casually plucked at his guitar strings.

他擦着鞋，乐手则时不时吉他的琴弦。

You got to fiddle with the switch, but it works.

你得注意一下开关，但还好用的。

Body language like hair-flipping and lip-licking can also be effective.

头发和舔嘴唇等身体语言也有效。

These models are great ways of poking the brain to see how it responds.

这些模型大脑观察其反应的好方法。

He kicks the frozen ground. Sort of looking for words.

欧维用手指着花瓣。

Look at the highlight on her lower lip, the left hand toying with her necklace.

看她那加亮的下唇，左手在着她的项链。

Rattling in the water mimics the activity of feeding fish.

在水里出咔嗒的声音可以模仿喂鱼的行为。

Amy poked the fire and said nothing.

艾米却着壁炉里的火，一声不吭。

Her grandfather was enjoying himself over the fire, raking about the ashes and exposing the red-hot surface of the turves, so that their lurid glare irradiated the chimney-corner with the hues of a furnace.

她外公正在烤火，着火灰，使草皮块炽热的表面露出来，那耀眼的火焰把壁炉四处映得通红，抹上一层锅炉的色彩。

Fleur, Harry noticed, was merely playing with her food; she glanced at the window every few minutes; however, Bill returned before they had finished their first course, his long hair tangled by the wind.

哈利注意到芙蓉几乎一在着盘里的食物；她每隔几分钟都要看一眼窗外。比尔在他们吃完第一道菜的时候才回来。他长长的头发随风舞动着。

On Christmas Day and Good Friday she drummed from breakfast till church, from church-time till two o'clock-unless when the fire wanted stirring, when she invariably knocked down the fire-irons, and scolded Miss Matty for it.

在圣诞节和耶稣受难日，她从早餐一敲到做礼拜的时候，从做礼拜一敲到两点钟——除非炉火需要一下，而她总会把火棍碰倒，然后为此训斥马蒂小姐。

But so have I seen little Miriam and Martha, laughing-eyed elves, heedlessly gambol around their old sire; sporting with the circle of singed locks which grew on the marge of that burnt-out crater of his brain.

但，我也看见了小小的米里亚姆和玛莎，这两个眼中笑意盈盈的精灵，漫不经心地绕着他们的老父亲嬉戏，着生在他那熄灭了的火山口似的脑的那圈烧焦的卷发。

That night David played upon his harp and sang these words, " I will give thanks unto Thee, O Lord, and sing praises unto Thy name! "

那天晚上，大卫着他的竖琴唱道：哦，上帝，我要感谢你，称颂你的名！

I spend a good part of the day just flipping through periodicals, drinking cups of tea, poking clumsily at the piano.

我一天中的大部分时间都在翻阅期刊、喝茶、笨拙地钢琴。

Now and again she broke up the pile with the poker, sending showers of sparks up the chimney.

她会时不时地用火棍火堆，激起的火星儿升向烟囱。

Stern fingered Sitwell's lapel and the small gold Hydra pin on it. " This is a nice pin."

斯特恩了下希特维尔西装的翻领以及上面金色的九头蛇别针，“这个别针真漂亮。”

The lobster was a scarlet mystery to her, but she hammered and poked till it was unshelled and its meager proportions concealed in a grove of lettuce leaves.

对她来说，龙虾一个红色的不解之谜，但她把它敲打和，到它的壳被剥开，那一点点虾肉，混在一大堆莴苣叶子中都看不出来了。

" You have to keep them somewhere, " he muttered, and poked a little cut on his thumb with the tip of a screwdriver.

“你总得有个地方摆书。”他喃喃地说着，用螺丝刀尖着大拇指上的一处伤口。