Something in its poor architecture recalled a steel engraving, perhaps one from an old edition of Paul et Virginie.
简陋的建筑使他想起一帧钢版画,或许是旧版《保尔和弗吉尼亚》里的插图。
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“We all felt the plane was arriving very, very quickly on the tarmac,” 28-year-old Virginie Giroux, one of the French passengers said.
28岁的法国乘客维尔吉尼·吉鲁说:“我们都感觉到飞机疾速地落向停机坪。”
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And oh! the romantic courting that went on in the forest paths of that secluded island, between the Bengali boy reader and little Virginie with the many-coloured kerchief round her head!