The light penetrated to it from two deep - set openings high up in the wall , but at that hour of the night the dressing room was lit by flaring gas . it was papered with a paper at seven sous a roll with a pattern of roses twining over green trelliswork 在夜晚這樣的時刻,煤氣燈的光焰照亮了化妝室,化妝室的墻上貼著每卷值七個蘇的紙,上面印著爬在棕色架子上的玫瑰花。
On a level with the floor on every stairhead there was a low window which resembled a deep , square venthole , while in lanterns fastened to the walls flaring gas jets crudely illuminatcd the surrounding squalor and gave out a glowing heat which , as it mounted up the narrow stairwell , grew ever more intense 每道樓梯的平臺邊,貼近地面都有一扇低矮的窗戶,方方正正地凹進去,像是氣窗。一些懸掛在墻壁上的燈籠,發(fā)出煤氣光焰,強烈地照射著這種種貧寒景物,還散發(fā)出一股熱氣,向上升騰,并聚積在各層狹窄的螺旋形樓梯下。