本人喜欢英文，更喜欢红楼梦，希望在简书，中英文的红楼梦能给你带来别样的阅读体验~
So saying, he called for a servant to take the child indoors, while he himself took Yu-cun by the hand and led him into his study, where his boy served them both with tea. But they had not exchanged half-a-dozen words before one of the servants rushed in to say that "Mr Yan had come to pay a call." Shi-yun hurriedly rose up and excused himself:"I seem to have brought you here under false pretences. I do hope you will forgive me. If you don't mind sitting on your own here for a moment, I shall be with you directly."
当下雨村见了士隐，忙施礼陪笑道：“老先生倚门伫望，敢是街市上有甚新闻否？”士隐笑道：“非也。适因小女啼哭，引他出来作耍，正是无聊之甚，兄来得正妙，请入小斋一谈，彼此皆可消此永昼。”说着，便令人送女儿进去，自与雨村携手来至书房中。小童献茶。方谈得三五句话，忽家人飞报：“严老爷来拜。”士隐慌的忙起身谢罪道：“恕诳驾之罪，略坐，弟即来陪。”
Yu-cun rose to his feet too. "Please do not distress yourself on my account, sir. I am a regular visitor here and can easily wait a bit." But by the time he had finished saying this, Shi-yin was already out of the study and on his way to the guestroom.
雨村忙起身亦让道：“老先生请便，晚生乃常造之客，稍候何妨。”说着，士隐已出前厅去了。
Let to himself, Yu-cun was flicking through some of Shi-yin's books of poetry in order to pass the time, when he heard a woman's cough outside the window. Immediately he jumped up and peered out to see who it was. The cough appeared to have come from a maid who was picking flowers in the garden. She was an unusually good-looking girl with a rather refined face: not a great beauty, by any means, but with something striking about her. Yu-cun gazed at her spellbound.
这里雨村且翻弄书籍解闷。忽听得窗外有女子嗽声，雨村遂起身往窗外一看，原来是一个丫环，在那里撷花，生得仪容不俗，眉目清明，虽无十分姿色，却亦有动人之处，雨村不觉看的呆了。
#Vocabulary#
spellbound
To be spellbound is to have your attention captured by something, captured so strongly it feels like witchcraft.
A spell is a type of magic that controls your mind, and being bound is being tied to something. Being spellbound is when your attention is caught by something, and you just can't look away, almost as if you were bound by a spell. An exciting movie can leave you spellbound. A great public speaker can hold the audience spellbound. When you're spellbound, your attention is on something 100%. Being spellbound is like being fascinated, hypnotized, mesmerized, or transfixed.
distress
If you are in distress, you are in trouble. You're hurting — either physically or mentally.
See the word stress hanging out at the end of distress? There's a good reason for that. The noun distress refers to a state of severe anxiety or strain, often brought about by failing to study for an exam, harassing grizzly bears, or borrowing your sister's clothes without asking. When used as a verb, to distress means to cause all that pain, suffering and anxiety — in other words, to stress somebody out.
Something that's refined has gone through a process to remove impurities. An oil refinery removes impurities from oil. When a person's refined, they have good manners and good taste.
A stereotypically refined lady will drink tea every day at four in the afternoon, lift her pinky while drinking, and select only refined (pure white, not raw) sugar as a sweetener. Someone with a refined taste in art has learned how to make judgments about what is good and what they like.
