She had learnt the lesson of renunciation, and was as familiar with the wreck of each day’s wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.
她已经学会放下;每天愿望的破灭,对她而言,已如每日的日落一样熟悉。
— Thomas Hardy · The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) · Elizabeth-Jane —
She had learnt the lesson of renunciation, and was as familiar with the wreck of each day’s wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.
她已经学会放下;每天愿望的破灭,对她而言,已如每日的日落一样熟悉。