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

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

我说过我会去，我也确实打算去。

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

我真是傻，买了一大堆圣诞礼物，却丝毫不知道为什么。

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

我已经好多年没送过圣诞礼物了——根本没有人可送。

I am no dealer in poisons.

我又不是卖毒药的。

I knew nothing of the people I was going to.

我对要去拜访的那家人一无所知。

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

那家最小的成员可能已经二十岁，也可能最大的才十岁。

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.

不过，要是你很久很久没做过这种事，光是买东西本身就是一种乐趣。

That is a fact.

这是事实。

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

我混在圣诞购物的人群里，寻找那些也许不至于荒唐透顶的东西，连我自己都觉得兴致勃勃。

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

我甚至还给玛奇——我是说威尔逊太太——买了样东西。