Does not the stuff appear as beautiful to you, as it did to my lord the minister?
在你看来，这件衣服不像在大臣大人看来那么漂亮吗？
2
Although we did the usual stuff friends do my suspicion grew about his affection towards me because whenever I would have time to meet he would drop everything to be with me.
虽然我们还是普通朋友，但是我的怀疑却有增长，因为当我去见他的时候他会放下手里的任何事情。
3
Hard times offer the opportunity to ask hard questions, and one of them is the one my friend asked, staring at sweaters and shoes: why did we buy all this stuff?