The feeble, fluttering flame seemed hardly attached to the wick as the child kissed her mother and then walked slowly toward the stairway.
当她吻了妈妈，慢步走向楼梯时，那跳闪的微弱烛焰看上去已跟烛芯脱离了。
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It was a solemn thing, to hear, in the darkened room, the feeble voice of the sick child recounting a weary catalogue of evils and calamities which hard men had brought upon him.