I turned my face away to conceal a smile I could not suppress: there was something ludicrous as well as painful in the little Parisienne’s earnest and innate devotion to matters of dress.

我转过脸去掩饰我无法抑制的微笑：小巴黎女人对着装的热忱和天生的热爱中既有些可笑又有些痛苦。

Laurence explains in the courtroom that, back in Dakar, her parents refused to allow her to speak Wolof, her maternal Senegalese tongue, at home; having done as instructed, she was mocked by her peers for sounding like a Parisienne.

劳伦斯在法庭上解释说，在达喀尔，她的父母不允许她在家里说沃洛夫语(她的塞内加尔母语)；她照父母的话做了，又被同龄人嘲笑听起来像巴黎人。

Thereupon she cast at Mouret the mocking glance of a Parisienne amused by the ridiculous rig of a country girl. He felt the amorous caress of this glance, the triumph of a woman proud of her beauty and her art.

随即，她向穆雷投去嘲弄的目光，就像一个被乡下姑娘的可笑装束逗乐的巴黎女人。他感受到了这一眼的爱抚，感受到了一个以自己的美貌和艺术为荣的女人的得意。

" She is very pretty, " he said to himself; " she is very pretty, this doctor's wife. Fine teeth, black eyes, a dainty foot, a figure like a Parisienne's. Where the devil does she come from? Wherever did that fat fellow pick her up" ?

" 她很讨人喜欢！" 他心里想，" 她很讨人喜欢，这个医生的太太！ 牙齿很白，眼睛很黑，脚很迷人，样子好像一个巴黎女人。 她到底是哪里来的？ 那个笨头笨脑的小子又是从哪里搞到她的？"