小尖塔

It was a big squarish frame house that has once been white, decorated with cupolas, and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what once been our most select street.

那是一幢过去漆成白色的近似方形的小木屋，坐落在当年一条最考究的街道上，还装着十九世纪七十年代风味的圆顶，尖塔和涡形花纹阳台，具有庄严而轻快的气氛。

There are four smaller domes around the central dome which duplicate it in design, as do the domes on top of the four dainty minarets.

中央圆顶的四周有四个小圆顶，设计上与中央的圆顶一样，四个秀丽的尖塔顶部的圆顶也是和中央圆顶设计相同。

Today we do not seek to impose our vision on others, but we are convinced that certain rights are universal -- not American rights or European rights or rights for developed nations, but the birthrights of people everywhere, now enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights -- the right to be treated with dignity; the right to express one's opinions, to choose one's own leaders, to associate freely with others, and to worship, or not, freely, however one chooses.

从我居住的华盛顿特区白宫的窗口向外眺望，我们第一任总统乔治。华盛顿的纪念碑俯视全城。那是一座高耸的方形尖塔。在这个庞大的纪念碑旁，有一块很小的石碑，上面刻着的碑文是：美国决不设置贵族和皇室头衔，也不建立世袭制度。国家事务由舆论公决。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失