霧都孤兒中特殊詞彙出現的片段

Mr Bumble coughed．"What is it" he asked，looking at the bottle with interest．

班布林先生咳嗽了一聲。“是什麼”他問道，並饒有興趣地看著瓶子。

"Gin．I keep it for the children"s medicine drink."

“杜松子酒，我這是留著給孩子們吃藥用的。”

"You give the children gin，Mrs Mann"asked Mr Bumble，watching as she mixed his drink．

“曼太太，你給孩子們喝杜松子酒”班布林先生看著她給自己兌酒，問道。

"Only with medicine，sir．I don"t like to see them suffer．"

“只是吃藥的時候給他們喝上一點兒，先生。我不忍心看著他們受罪。”

"You"re a good woman，Mrs Mann．" Mr Bumble drank half his glass immediately．"I"ll tell the board about you．

“曼太太，你真是個好心的女人。”班布林先生馬上喝下了半杯。“我會在董事會那裡替你美言的。

Now - the reason why I"m here．Oliver Twist is nine years old today．We"ve never been able to discover anything about his parents."

現在言歸正傳，說說我今天來這兒的目的。奧利弗·特威斯特今天已經整整九歲了，迄今為止，我們沒有打聽到關於他父母的任何訊息。”

"Then how did he get his name"

“那麼，他是怎麼有了這個姓的”

"I gave it to him，"said Mr Bumble proudly． "We follow the alphabet．The last one was an S-Swubble．The n it was T，so this one is Twist．

“這姓是我給他起的，”班布林先生自豪地說，“我們是按照字母表的順序給他們安排姓氏的，前一個是S，叫斯瓦勃（Swubble）