Audiobook Dictation: “The last two days of the…”

The last two days of the voyage Bartley found almost intolerable.

航程的最後兩天，巴特利覺得幾乎難以忍受。

The stop at Queenstown, the tedious passage up the Mersey, were things that he noted dimly through his growing impatience.

在昆士敦的停靠，沿默西河而上的冗長航行，他都在日益增長的焦躁中只模糊地留意到。

He had planned to stop in Liverpool; but, instead, he took the boat train for London.

他原打算在利物浦停留；但他卻搭上了開往倫敦的港口聯運火車。

Emerging at Euston at half-past three o'clock in the afternoon, Alexander had his luggage sent to the Savoy and drove at once to Bedford Square.

下午三點半在尤斯頓站下車後，亞歷山大讓人把行李送到薩伏伊酒店，自己立刻乘車前往貝德福德廣場。

When Marie met him at the door, even her strong sense of the proprieties could not restrain her surprise and delight.

瑪麗在門口迎接他時，即便她向來極重禮數，也掩不住驚喜。

The room was empty when he entered.

他進去時，房間裡空無一人。

A coal fire was crackling in the grate and the lamps were lit, for it was already beginning to grow dark outside.

壁爐裡煤火劈啪作響，燈也已點亮，因為外面天色已開始暗下來了。

Alexander did not sit down.

亞歷山大沒有坐下。

"Oh, what a grand thing to happen on a raw day!

「哦，在這樣陰冷的日子裡，竟有這樣的好事！

I felt it in my bones when I woke this morning that something splendid was going to turn up.

今早醒來時，我骨子裡就感覺到會有什麼美妙的事發生。