Fanny Elsing and the Bonnell girls, roused early from slumber, were yawning on the back seat and the Elsings' mammy sat grumpily on the box, a basket of freshly laundered bandages on her lap.

范妮·埃尔辛和邦内尔家的姑娘们也给从睡梦中叫起来，正在座打哈欠，埃尔辛家的嬷嬷则满脸不高兴地坐在夫座位，膝头放着一篮新浆洗过的绷带。

She put her hands on my shoulders and drew me close to her apron, which smelled of starch and freshly baked bread.

她把双手放在我肩头，把我拉到她的围裙边，围裙散发出浆洗过的和新烤的面包的味道。

The day was hot and the flies came in the open windows in swarms, fat lazy flies that broke the spirits of the men as pain could not.

天气热，苍蝇成群结队地飞进敞开的窗户，这些养得又肥又懒的苍蝇比病痛更加严重地摧残人们的精力，恶臭和惨叫声在她围一阵高过一阵，她端着盘子跟随米德大夫走来走去，浑身热汗，她那件刚浆洗过的衣裳都湿透。

REPORTER 2: They worked their way past column A's and column B's, past, " no starch, please, " to become our nation's model minority.

记者2：他们从A栏和B栏中脱颖而出， 超越“请不要浆洗” 的请求， 成为我们国家的模范少数族裔。

Both are critics of reputation; the opinions tumbled out so spontaneously here will be starched and stiffened into columns of sober prose which will uphold the dignity of letters in England and America.

两人都是名誉批评家。这里自然而然地涌出的观点将被浆洗、硬化成严肃的散文专栏，这将维护英国和美国文学的尊严。

The novel, the stiff old lady, the gentleman, the caps, the petticoats, the clear-starching--what was the cause of her downfall?

小说、僵硬的老太太、绅士、帽子、衬裙、浆洗——是什么导致她的垮台？

Tell them if they over-starch my shirts again, they're gonna hear about from me. -Yes, sir.

告诉他们，要是再把我的衬衫浆洗过头，有他们好受的。-是，先生。

The very stiff old lady said she would want Juliet to clear-starch collars, to iron cuffs, and to wash and iron petticoats.

这位非常僵硬的老太太说，她希望朱丽叶把衣领浆洗干净，熨烫袖口，清洗和熨烫衬裙。

All this clear-starching and ironing, she exclaimed, were beyond her.

她惊呼，所有这些浆洗和熨烫都超出她的能力范围。