波洛圣诞探案记05

VGeorge Lee, M.P. for Westeringham, was a somewhat corpulent gentleman of forty-one. His eyeswere pale blue and slightly prominent with a suspicious expression, he had a heavy jowl, and aslow pedantic ¹ utterance ².,He said now in a weighty manner:,“I have told you, Magdalene, that I think it my duty to go.”,His wife shrugged ³ her shoulders impatiently.,She was a slender creature, a platinum ⁴ blonde with plucked eyebrows ⁵ and a smooth egglikeface. It could, on occasions, look quite blank and devoid ⁶ of any expression whatever. She waslooking like that now.,“Darling, ” she said, “it will be perfectly ⁷ grim, I am sure of it.
”,“Oh, well!” said Magdalene. “After all, Christmas is pretty grim anywhere! ”,“I suppose,” said George, pursuing his own line of thought, “they will expect to have aChristmas dinner? A nice piece of beef, perhaps, instead of a turkey.
”,“Who?” The servants? Oh, George, don’t fuss so. You’re always worrying about money. ”,“Somebody has to worry,
” said George.,“Yes, but it’s absurd to pinch and scrape in all these little ways. Why don’t you make yourfather give you some more money?”,Reading in a pedantic way may turn you into a bookworm or a bookcase,and has long been opposed.读死书会变成书呆子，甚至于成为书橱 ，早有人反对过了。,This utterance of his was greeted with bursts of uproarious laughter.他的讲话引起阵阵哄然大笑 。