He went to a cupboard and reaching up to a high shelf took down a square green bottle, the contents of which he poured into a green-gold dish, beautifully carved.
他走到食橱前，伸手从一个高架上拿下一只方形绿瓶，把里面的东西倒在一只雕刻精美的绿金色碟子里。
2
We never thought much about the wine…until we asked a physician recently why he had an unusual bottle of California wine on his shelf right next to the plastic model of the intestines.
He took down from the shelf a bottle of colourless liquid with a plain white label marked VICTORY GIN. It gave off a sickly, oily smell, as of Chinese rice-spirit.