赛特笠小姐的爸爸在伦敦做买卖，手里很有几个钱，

whereas Miss Sharp was an articled pupil, for whom Miss Pinkerton had done, as she thought, quite enough, without conferring upon her at parting the high honour of the Dixonary.

而夏泼小姐不过在学校里半教半读，平克顿小姐认为自己已经给了她不少好处，不必再在分手的时候特别抬举她，送她字典。

Although schoolmistresses' letters are to be trusted no more nor less than

churchyard epitaphs;

一般说来，校长的信和墓志铭一样靠不住。

yet, as it sometimes happens that a person departs this life who is really deserving of all the praises the stone cutter carves over his bones; who IS a good Christian, a good parent, child, wife, or husband; who actually DOES leave a disconsolate family to mourn his loss; so in academies of the male and female sex it occurs every now and then that the pupil is fully worthy of the praises bestowed by the disinterested instructor.

不过偶然也有几个死人当得起石

Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham
人性的枷锁 

毛姆

An extraordinary sensation filled him.

顿时，菲利普心里涌泛出一股异样的情感。

sen'sa'tion

1 [uncountable and countable] a feeling that you get from one of your five senses, especially the sense of touch

burning/prickling/tingling etc sensation

One sign of a heart attack is a tingling sensation in the left arm.

sensation of

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

昨晚，我梦自己又回到了曼陀丽庄园。

 It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me.

恍惚中，我站在那扇通往车道的大铁门前，好一会儿被挡在门外进不去。

There was a padlock and chain upon the gate.

铁门上挂着把大锁，还系了根铁链。

I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was