She had seated herself on a low stool against her husband's knee.

她在丈膝盖旁的一张矮上坐下。

It's more tragic, after all, if a king falls from a tall throne than if a jester falls off his step stool.

国从崇高的下比小丑从踏脚矮跌倒， 要悲剧性得多。

Each girl sat on her three-legged stool as she milked, her right cheek resting on the cow's body, watching Tess arrive.

挤奶时，每个女工都坐在一张三条腿的矮上，她们把右脸颊靠在牛的身子上，看到苔丝进来了。

Sitting on a low stool, a few yards from her arm-chair, I examined her figure; I perused her features.

我坐在一张矮上，离她的扶手椅几码远，端详着她的身材。我仔细研究了她的特征。

Markelov said all this softly, sitting on a low stool, his head bent and arms hanging loose at his sides.

马尔克洛坐在一张矮上，低着头，双臂垂在身体两侧，轻声说了这一切。

I am sitting on a low seat at the bay window, one half of which is open, so that I can smell the sweet flowers in the garden.

我坐在窗边的矮上，窗子半开着，这样我可以闻到花园里的花香。

Mr. Hale was reading aloud. Margaret was working on a low stool by her mother's side. Her heart fluttered, if his did not, at this interview.

黑尔先生正在大声朗读。玛格丽特正在母亲身边的一张矮上工作。在这次采访中，如果他没有的话，她的心会颤抖。

A little way off at the foot of a tree sat a merry party, a squirrel and his wife with their children and two satyrs and a dwarf and an old dogfox, all on stools round a table.

妇和孩子，还有两个森林神，一个小矮人，一只老雄狐，全都围着桌子坐在矮上。

At last she had to resign herself, and sat down on a low stool, thinking of the melting snow on the slopes and the first flowers of spring that she had hailed with such delight.

最后她不得不放弃自己，在一张矮上坐下，想着山坡上融化的雪和她如此高兴地欢呼的春天的第一朵花。

41) a white-haired man sat on a low bench, stooping forward and very busy, making shoes: While touring the Philadelphia State Prison in 1842, Dickens met a shoemaker in solitary confinement (see the Introduction, pp.

41) 一个白发男子坐在一张矮上，弯着腰，非常忙碌地制作鞋子：1842 年，狄更斯在参观费城州立监狱时，遇到了一被单独监禁的鞋匠（见引言，第 41 页）。

She had a pink and white doll's face and a short mop of butter-coloured hair and she squatted beside him on a low stool with a bowl full of instruments balanced on the tips of her knees.

她有一张粉白相间的娃娃脸，一头奶油色的短发，蹲在他身边的一张矮上，膝尖上放着一个装满乐器的碗。

Mr. Piperson pulled off the other boot and flung it after the first, there was again a curious noise— " Be quiet, will ye" ? said Mr. Piperson. Pigling Bland sat on the very edge of the coppy stool.

Piperson 先生脱下另一只靴子，跟在第一只靴子后扔了出去，又是一阵奇怪的声音——“安静，好吗？”皮森先生说。小猪布兰德坐在矮子的边缘。

They find their way onto the lush purples and reds of the Persian rugs on the floor, Henry's head in Alex's lap and Bea on a pouf, plucking away at a weird little instrument she tells Alex is called an autoharp.

他们找到了地板上郁郁葱葱的紫色和红色波斯地毯的路径，亨利的头放在亚历克斯的腿上， 比亚坐在矮上，弹奏着一种奇怪的小乐器， 她告诉亚历克斯叫做自动竖琴。