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LESSON 82 JUPITER AND TEN
第八十二课 朱庇特和十个
Mrs. Chub was rich and portly, Mrs. Chub was very grand, Mrs. Chub was always reckoned a lady in the land.
查伯太太有钱又富态，查伯太太非常显摆，人们始终以为查伯太太，是有地产的阔太。
You shall see her marble mansion in a very stately square,
你能看到她富丽堂皇的住宅，非常庄严的仪态，
Mr. C. knows what it cost him, but that's neither here nor there.
C先生晓得要花多少钱，可是既不是这儿也不是那儿。
Mrs. Chub was so sagacious, such a patron of the arts,
查伯太太好精明，摇身成为艺术赞助人，
and she gave such foreign orders that she won all foreign hearts.
她向外国人的出售艺术品赢得所有外国人的心。
Mrs. Chub was always talking, when she went away from home, of a most prodigious painting which had just arrived from Rome.
查伯太太一离开家，谈的都是最惊人的绘画，就这样到了罗马。
"Such a treasure," she insisted, "One might never see again!"
“这样一笔宝藏。”她一再说，“也许永远不会再见到！”
"What's the subject?" we inquired. "It is Jupiter and Ten!"
“什么主题？”我们打听道。“朱庇特和十个！”
"Ten what?" we blandly asked her for the knowledge we did lack.
“十个什么？”我们茫然地问道，因为我们确实不了解。
