Audiobook Dictation: “There was William Henry, John Frank…”

There was William Henry, John Frank, Ferdinand Augustus, and Stephen Arthur.

有威廉·亨利、約翰·法蘭克、費迪南德·奧古斯塔斯和史蒂芬·亞瑟。

Each of them twice my size and all of them frightfully ignorant and wholly regardless of the sensitive little points of those with whom they came in contact.

他們個個身材比我大一倍，全都愚昧得可怕，完全不顧及與他們打交道的人那些細微敏感之處。

There is no circumlocution about them. They go straight at what they want; and were scarcely inside my door before they blurted out the purport of their coming.

他們說話從不拐彎抹角，想要什麼就直奔什麼；剛一進我家門，就把來意脫口而出。

It was Frederick Augustus; if the thing is possible he is, if anything, more direct even than the rest of his family.

開口的是弗雷德里克·奧古斯塔斯；如果可能的話，他甚至比家裡其他人還要直截了當。

"Look here, Whiting, how about Mary Ann's ring?

「喂，懷廷，瑪麗·安的戒指怎麼樣了？

The girl is fretting, but you don't seem to notice it.

那姑娘正為這事發愁，可你好像根本沒注意到。