but first the apartment has to be rented, and the deeds signed, and a thousand other details for which his frock coat will come in handy.
可是首先得把公寓租出去,订好契约,安排好各种琐事,这会儿他的常礼服说不定会派上用场呢。
he probably had his frock coat on when he sat down to pen this missive, and he probably rubbed his hands a few times as he used to do when a customer was calling to rent the apartment.
也许他坐下写这封信时穿着常礼服,也许他搓了几回手,以前有顾客上门来租他的公寓时他常常那样。
he had insisted on dressing himself up in a frock coat and the most dismal pep per and salt trousers.
他固执己见地穿着礼服大衣和那条最悔气的黑白相间的裤子。
the frock coat full of wadding, cut close to pull the figure into shape, gradually gave way to a looser but still precise jacket.
塞满填充物,裁剪合乎身材的外罩逐渐被宽松但正好的夹克所取代。
at the end of the cotillion, the old count in his blue frock coat went up to the young people who had been dancing.
科季里昂舞跳完之后,老伯爵穿着蓝色燕尾服走到跳舞的人跟前。
he wore blue trousers, a blue frock coat and a broad-brimmed hat,which always appeared to be new, a black cravat, a quaker shirt,that is to say, it was dazzlingly white, but of coarse linen.
他穿一条蓝色长裤,一件蓝色骑马服,戴顶宽边帽,好象永远是新的,结一条黑领带,穿件教友派衬衫,就是说,那种白到耀眼的粗布衬衫。