Noureddin and the Fair Persian 5

About that time the Persian, perceiving that the room was lit by only one miserable ¹ tallow（牛脂 ，兽脂） candle, asked Scheih Ibrahim to light some of the beautiful candles in the silver arms. , ,"Light them yourself," answered the old man; "you are younger than I, but let five or six be enough." , ,She did not stop, however, till she had lit all the eighty, but Scheih Ibrahim was not conscious of this, and when, soon after that, Noureddin proposed to have some of the lustres（光泽） lit, he answered: , , ,Noureddin, far from contenting himself with three, lit all, and opened all the eighty windows. , ,The Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid, chancing at that moment to open a window in the saloon of his palace looking on the garden, was surprised to see the pavilion（阁
，亭子） brilliantly illuminated ³. Calling the grand-vizir, Giafar, he said to him: , ,Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦 。,The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替
。