Often has my heart ached with regret for those quartos.

我那些本而后悔不已。

To possess those clean-paged quartos I would have sold my coat.

要拥有那些页面干净本， 我会卖掉我外套。

Many of the tombs had been robbed and left open to the sky.

【open】这些墓有许多被盗，在露天下大敞。

The account of the French taxes, which takes up three volumes in quarto, may be regarded as perfectly authentic.

法国税收账目占本三卷， 可以说是完全真实。

In France I had published a two–volume work, in quarto, entitled The Mysteries of the Great Ocean Depths.

在法国， 我出版了一本两卷本本，题《大洋深处奥秘》。

Sophie saw the Giant straighten up again and she saw him poke the trumpet in through the upstairs window of the room where the Goochey children were sleeping.

苏菲看见，巨人直起身板，把喇叭进大敞顶楼窗子，古齐家孩子正在熟睡。

'I suppose they are those heavy ones, sir, ' said Oliver, pointing to some large quartos, with a good deal of gilding about the binding.

“我想它们是那些沉重， 先生，” 奥利弗指着一些大本说， 装订处有很多镀金。

It poured itself out, higgledy-piggledy, in torrents of rhyme and prose, poetry and philosophy which stand congealed in quartos and folios that nobody ever reads.

它以韵律和散文、诗歌和哲学洪流倾泻而出，杂乱无章，凝结在没人读过本和对本中。

Between the rose bowls the books were duly set out–a row of nursery quartos opened invitingly each at some gaily coloured image of beast or fish or bird.

把书在花钵行列之间排——一大排幼儿园用本大书翻了来，露出了一些色彩鲜艳鸟儿、野兽和鱼形象，美丽动人。

The author of a two–volume work, in quarto, on The Mysteries of the Great Ocean Depths has no excuse for not setting sail with Commander Farragut.

两卷本本《大洋深处之谜》作者没有理由不与法拉格特指挥官一起起航。

What was the good of all this fuss about an old quarto, bound in rough calf, a yellow, faded volume, with a ragged seal depending from it?

对一本旧本大惊小怪有什么好处，它是用粗糙小牛皮装订， 是一本黄色、褪色书，上面有一个破旧印章？

He welcomed wet days because on them he could stay at home without pangs of conscience and spend the afternoon with white of egg and a glue-pot, patching up the Russia leather of some battered quarto.

他欢迎下雨日子，因在雨天他可以待在家里而不必担心良心问题，用蛋清和胶水罐度过一个下午，修补一些破旧本俄罗斯皮革。

There were to be seen ranged on oaken shelves an innumerable army, or rather a grand assembly, of books in duodecimo, in octavo, in quarto, in folio, clad in calf, sheep, morocco leather, in parchment and in pigskin.

在橡木书架上可以看到无数书籍，或者更确切地说是一个盛大集会，书籍有十二本、八本、本、对本，覆盖着小牛皮、绵羊皮、摩洛哥皮革、羊皮纸和猪皮。