Audiobook Dictation: “It's not worth much, but I…”

It's not worth much, but I love it.

它不值多少錢，可我很喜歡。

I've managed to save something every year, and that with helping my three sisters now and then, and tiding poor Cousin Mike over bad seasons.

我每年都設法攢下一點錢，同時還時不時幫幫我的三個妹妹，並在不景氣的演出季接濟可憐的表哥邁克。

He's that gifted, you know, but he will drink and loses more good engagements than other fellows ever get.

他很有天分，你知道的，可他偏要喝酒，丟掉的好合約比別人一輩子得到的還多。

And I've traveled a bit, too."

而且我也出門旅行過一些地方。」

Marie opened the door and smilingly announced that dinner was served.

瑪麗打開門，笑盈盈地通報晚餐已經備好。

"My dining-room," Hilda explained, as she led the way, "is the tiniest place you have ever seen."

「我的飯廳，」希爾達一邊領路一邊解釋，「是你見過的最小的地方。」

It was a tiny room, hung all round with French prints, above which ran a shelf full of china.

那是個小小的房間，四壁掛滿了法國版畫，版畫上方是一圈擺滿瓷器的架子。

Hilda saw Alexander look up at it.

希爾達看見亞歷山大抬頭望著那些瓷器。

"It's not particularly rare," she said, "but some of it was my mother's.

「這些並不怎麼稀罕，」她說，「不過有些是我母親的。

Heaven knows how she managed to keep it whole, through all our wanderings, or in what baskets and bundles and theatre trunks it hasn't been stowed away.

天曉得她是怎麼在我們四處漂泊的日子裡把它們保存完好的，也不知它們曾被塞進過多少籃子、包袱和戲箱裡。