Audiobook Dictation: “Could it ever smile…”

Could it ever smile?

這張臉會笑嗎？

And yet, if you could only see the benign smile of the original!

可是，你要是能看到本人那慈祥的笑容就好了！

It is so much the more unfortunate, as he is a public character of some eminence, and the likeness was intended to be engraved."

這就更不走運了，因為他是位頗有聲望的公眾人物，這張肖像本是要拿去製版印刷的。」

"Well, I don't wish to see it any more," observed Phoebe, turning away her eyes.

「好吧，我不想再看了。」菲比說著，移開了目光。

"It is certainly very like the old portrait.

「它確實很像那幅舊畫像。

But my cousin Hepzibah has another picture,--a miniature.

不過我表姐赫普茲巴有另一幅畫像，——一幅細密畫。

If the original is still in the world, I think he might defy the sun to make him look stern and hard."

如果畫中人還在世，我想就連太陽也休想把他照得嚴厲冷酷。」

"You have seen that picture, then!" exclaimed the artist, with an expression of much interest.

「這麼說你見過那幅畫了！」那位藝術家叫道，臉上滿是興趣。

"I never did, but have a great curiosity to do so.

「我從沒見過，不過非常好奇想看看。

And you judge favorably of the face?"

那你對那張臉評價不錯？」