The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible was the dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner.

车行里毫无兴旺的气象，空空如也；只看见一辆汽车，一部盖满灰尘、破旧不堪的福特车，蹲在阴暗的角落里。

That unprosperous race of men, commonly called men of letters, are pretty much in the situation which lawyers and physicians probably would be in, upon the foregoing supposition.

那些不富裕的人种，通常被称为文人，根据上述假设，律师和医生可能会处于这种情况。

The bus which bore them was crowded with hot, unprosperous people, and Anthony, intimate to Gloria, felt a storm brewing. It broke at the Zoo, where the party stopped for ten minutes. The Zoo, it seemed, smelt of monkeys.

载着他们的公共汽车挤满了热气腾腾、一贫如洗的人，与格洛丽亚关系密切的安东尼感到一场风暴正在酝酿。它在动物园爆发，聚会在那里停了十分钟。动物园似乎散发着猴子的味道。

Elizabeth had been lately forming an intimacy, which she wished to see interrupted. It was with the daughter of Mr Shepherd, who had returned, after an unprosperous marriage, to her father's house, with the additional burden of two children.

这理由是，伊莉莎白当时结交了一位密友，而拉塞尔夫人希望中断这种关系。那是谢泼德先生的一位女儿，她因婚后生活不美满而回到娘家，还带着两个孩子。