Audiobook Dictation: “I said I would go, and…”

I said I would go, and I meant to go.

我說過我會去，我也確實打算去。

I had been idiot enough to load myself with a lot of Christmas presents, without the faintest notion why.

我真是傻，買了一大堆聖誕禮物，卻絲毫不知道為什麼。

I had not given a Christmas present for years--there had been no one to give them to.

我已經好多年沒送過聖誕禮物了——根本沒有人可送。

I am no dealer in poisons.

我又不是賣毒藥的。

I knew nothing of the people I was going to.

我對要去拜訪的那家人一無所知。

The youngest member of the family might be twenty, or the oldest ten.

那家最小的成員可能已經二十歲，也可能最大的才十歲。

Still, if you have not tried your hand at that kind of thing for ever so long, the mere act of purchasing is a pleasure.

不過，要是你很久很久沒做過這種事，光是買東西本身就是一種樂趣。

That is a fact.

這是事實。

I felt quite lively myself as I mingled with the Christmas crowd, looking for things which might not turn out to be absolutely preposterous.

我混在聖誕購物的人群裡，尋找那些也許不至於荒唐透頂的東西，連我自己都覺得興致勃勃。

I even bought something for Madge--I mean Mrs. Wilson.

我甚至還給瑪奇——我是說威爾遜太太——買了樣東西。