Often has my heart ached with regret for those quartos.

我常常为那些四开本而后悔不已。

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

要拥有那些页面干净的四开本， 我会卖掉我的外套。

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

【open】这些墓有许多被盗，露天下大敞四开的。

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

法国税收的账目占四开本三卷， 可以说是完全真实的。

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

法国， 我出版了一本两卷本的四开本，题为《大洋深处的奥秘》。

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，把喇叭进大敞四开的顶楼窗子，古齐家的孩子正熟睡。

'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的， 先生，” 奥利弗指着一些大的四开本说， 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、诗歌和哲学的洪流倾泻而出，杂乱无章，凝人读过的四开本和对开本中。

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.

把书花钵的行列之间排开——一大排幼儿园用的四开本大书翻了开来，露出了一些色彩鲜艳的鸟儿、野兽和鱼的形象，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.

两卷本四开本《大洋深处之谜》的作者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?

对一本旧四开本大惊小怪有什么好处，它是用粗糙的小牛皮装订的， 是一本黄色、褪色的书，上面有一个破旧的印章？

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.

他欢迎下雨的日子，因为雨天他可以待家里而不必担心良心的问题，用蛋清和胶水罐度过一个下午，修补一些破旧的四开本的俄罗斯皮革。

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.

橡木书架上可以看到无数的书籍，或者更确切地说是一个盛大的集会，书籍有十二开本、八开本、四开本、对开本，覆盖着小牛皮、绵羊皮、摩洛哥皮革、羊皮纸和猪皮。