Audiobook Dictation: “Could it ever smile…”

Could it ever smile?

这张脸会笑吗？

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."

这就更不走运了，因为他是位颇有声望的公众人物，这张肖像本是要拿去制版印刷的。”

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

“好吧，我不想再看了。”菲比说着，移开了目光。

"It is certainly very like the old portrait.

“它确实很像那幅旧画像。

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

不过我表姐赫普兹巴有另一幅画像，——一幅细密画。

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

如果画中人还在世，我想就连太阳也休想把他照得严厉冷酷。”

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

“这么说你见过那幅画了！”那位艺术家叫道，脸上满是兴趣。

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

“我从没见过，不过非常好奇想看看。

And you judge favorably of the face?"

那你对那张脸评价不错？”