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

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

它不值多少钱，可我很喜欢。

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.

我每年都设法攒下一点钱，同时还时不时帮帮我的三个妹妹，并在不景气的演出季接济可怜的表哥迈克。

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，丢掉的好合约比别人一辈子得到的还多。

And I've traveled a bit, too."

而且我也出门旅行过一些地方。”

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

玛丽打开门，笑盈盈地通报晚餐已经备好。

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

“我的饭厅，”希尔达一边领路一边解释，“是你见过的最小的地方。”

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

那是个小小的房间，四壁挂满了法国版画，版画上方是一圈摆满瓷器的架子。

Hilda saw Alexander look up at it.

希尔达看见亚历山大抬头望着那些瓷器。

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

“这些并不怎么稀罕，”她说，“不过有些是我母亲的。

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.

天晓得她是怎么在我们四处漂泊的日子里把它们保存完好的，也不知它们曾被塞进过多少篮子、包袱和戏箱里。