she placed a circle of carpet swatches on the tile floor and put a small wooden rocking chair at the front.
然后用碎地毯片片铺在地上,围成一圈,放把摇椅在圈子中间。
there was a rusty lawn mower, a broken wicker laundry basket, a blue china saucer with a crack in it, and a cane rocking chair with a hole in the seat.
she was in the metal rocking chair she’d had since before i was born, olive-green seat cushions and floral ironwork along the arms.
她坐的那个金属摇椅,是在生我之前就有了的,铺着橄榄绿的坐垫,还有带花纹的铸铁扶手。
have a dipper of water ――you must be thirsty――and take a rest in my rocking chair and i’ll be right with you.
喝点水吧---你一定渴了---坐在我的摇椅里休息一会儿,我一会儿就跟你走。
「i’ll give you about two minutes, 」the devil said. he dipped some water from the bucket by the door and sat down in old john’s rocking chair out in the sun.
「我给你两分钟的时间, 」魔鬼说着就去门边的桶里舀了点水喝,然后坐在外面阳光下老约翰的摇椅里。
「second, 」old john said. 「i’m tired to death of people sitting in my rocking chair in the yard there.
“第二, 」第约翰说, “人们老是要坐我院子里的摇椅,我都烦死了。
i retired to the back porch with my two brothers and brother-in-law, and sat down in a rocking chair with a sigh.
我和我的两个兄弟和连襟一起到后长廊去,坐在摇椅里閑谈。
spittoons were placed on the floor beside the rocking chair in the kitchen,①or even in the living room. they were used by older men who smoked or chewed tobacco.
在那个年代,痰盂会被放在厨房甚至是客厅的摇椅旁,供那些吸烟或是嚼烟草的上岁数的男人使用。
now i want that rocking chair to grab hold of people who sit in it and rock and spin them around and bounce them silly, until i say‘rocking chair, stop.’and