And I really am sorry about what happened in the waxworks room.
对于在蜡像室发生的事情,我真的很抱歉。
雾都孤儿(原版)
'A many, many, beautiful corpses she laid out, as nice and neat as waxwork.
她摆出了许多很多美丽的尸体,像蜡像一样漂亮整洁。
远大前程(原版)
Now, waxwork and skeleton seemed to have dark eyes that moved and looked at me.
现在,蜡像和骷髅似乎有黑眼睛,移动和看着我。
远大前程(原版)
Once, I had been taken to see some ghastly waxwork at the Fair, representing I know not what impossible personage lying in state.
有一次,我被带到博览会上看到一些可怕的蜡像,代表我不知道什么不可能的人躺在状态。
BBC 听力 2022年10月合集
Police in Britain have arrested two environmental protesters who threw chocolate cake at a waxwork effigy of King Charles III at Madame Tussauds in London.
英国警方逮捕了两名环保抗议者,原因是他们在伦敦杜莎夫人蜡像馆向国王查尔斯三世的蜡像扔巧克力蛋糕。
简·爱(原版)
This was a full-blown, very plump damsel, fair as waxwork, with handsome and regular features, languishing blue eyes, and ringleted yellow hair.
这是一个成熟的、非常丰满的少女,白皙如蜡像,五官端正而英俊,蓝眼睛憔悴,黄头发卷成小卷。
还乡
He was such an unnatural colour to look at that the men of roundabouts and waxwork shows seemed gentlemen beside him; but he considered them low company, and remained aloof.
The only thing that had kept me from running screaming from the Chamber of Horrors as I was led around it was that none of the waxworks had looked fully convincing.
唯一让我在被带领时没有尖叫着从恐怖密室跑出来的是, 没有一个蜡像看起来完全令人信服。
史蒂芬‧金谈写作
Some of the ideas which have produced those books are more complex than others, but the majority start out with the stark simplicity of a department store window display or a waxwork tableau.
And from there we just go round the corner to Madame Tussaud's to see the waxworks and after that fight next door to the London Planetarium where you'll see the stars simulated by laser beams.