Archer had been wont to smile at these annual vaticinations of his mother's;but this year even he was obliged to acknowledge, as he listened to an enumeration of the changes, that the " trend" was visible.

” 阿切尔习惯于对他母亲这些一年一度的笑； 但今年，即使他听了这些变化的列举， 他也不得不承认，“趋势” 是显而易见的。