the nearest well was south and west of the harridan so they set off in that direction the bells on their collars ringing merrily with every step. no one paid them any mind.
最近的水井再老泼妇(那个投石机)的西南方向,于是他们便直接向那个防线走去,而每走一步都伴着项圈铃的欢快饷声。
mr netanyahu’s recent paean to matrimony followed days of ugly reports and swirling rumours depicting mrs netanyahu as a henpecking harridan and the prime minister as her squirming victim.
内塔尼亚胡对婚姻大唱赞歌是对近期丑化其形象的报道及流言的回应,在这些报道和流言中,其妻萨拉被描绘成一个泼妇,而内塔尼亚胡本人活脱脱就是个妻管严的形象。
how, from a jolly, affectionate person she had become a harridan , constantly nagging at him to improve himself.
她是怎样地从一个快活的,充满柔情的女人变成一个兇恶的悍妇,没完没了地向他抱怨,催他改善自己的境遇,。
hard to believe that this scrawny, hatchet-faced harridan was lily's sister, but yes, somehow she bore the traces which marked one who had had the love – however unrequited – of a powerful witch.
很难相信这个干瘦的,马脸的泼妇是莉莉的姐姐,但是,是的,以某种方式深深刻进她脸庞里的痕迹显示着她是那个强大女巫所爱的人——尽管是未曾回报的爱。