The hermit bent his head before the two women, and gave thanks in his heart. 'If my soul is as these, ' he said, 'I am blessed indeed. '
隐士在两个女人面前低下头，衷心地感谢她们：“如果我的灵魂就像这样的话，我实在是有福了。”It would not do for her to drink too much, to reel about in public like the idlers of the Bamboo Brook.
她不宜饮酒过多，免得在大庭广众间象浪迹于竹林溪涧的隐士一样有失体统。This would be all right if I were a hermit, but since I enjoy the company of others, I prefer to be an "early bird. "
我若是个隐士这一切还好，但是既然我喜欢与人相处，我更愿意当一只“早起的鸟儿”。She was one of American literature's most reclusive figures.
她是美国文学史上著名的隐士。I'd get a sickening sense of dread for the fortnight leading up to them, knowing that I would become a sleep-deprived grumpy, spotty hermit.
十四天的夜班后我发现感到胆战心惊的害怕，我很清楚的知道自己会变成一个睡眠不足的，性情乖戾情绪不稳的隐士。Only the sannyasi does it in the name of religion, or God, and the competitive man accepts it as a part of the social structure.
只有隐士以宗教或神之名这么做，而争强好胜的人们把这当作社会结构的一部分。Living without feedback, even in the lap of luxury, would be for all but a few recluses barely living at all.
生活无回馈，即使是在单圈的奢侈品，将是除少数隐士生活几乎在所有。If I was a hermit, I could certainly manage with a single pair of shoes.
倘若我是一位隐士，我完全可以用一双鞋子凑乎过去。Yet, to think of her as a friendless hermit would be incorrect.
然而，我们并不能把她看作是没有朋友的隐士。