“In this terrible show of weakness”, Mr Byrd wrote, “the Senate left an indelible stain upon its own escutcheon.”

“在这次严重的示弱行为后，”伯德写道，“参议院在自己的盾上留下了不可磨灭的污点。”

Deep would have been the blot upon his escutcheon if his chocolate had been ignobly waited on by only three men; he must have died of two.

如果他的巧克力只被三个人无礼地侍候，他的徽章上就会有深色污点；他一定死于两个。

If I had been a gentleman, of course, I would have let him kill me and that would have wiped the blot from the Butler escutcheon. But — I like to live.

可是----.

The house fronted the village green; and right before it stood an immemorial lime-tree benched all round, in some hidden recesses of whose leafy wealth hung the grim escutcheon of the Lennards.

矗立着一棵远古的椴树， 长凳四处都是， 在某个隐蔽的凹处， 绿树成荫的财富挂着伦纳德家族的严峻盾牌。

Day was breaking, and he could distinguish the escutcheons over the door, and knocked. Someone, without opening the door, shouted out the required information, adding a few insults to those who disturb people in the middle of the night.

天朦朦亮。 他看出了一家门上有几块牌子；他去敲门。 门没有开，回答问话的人又说又骂，咒骂那些深更半夜吵得人睡不着的人。

All around, there ere monuments carved with armorial bearings; and on this simple slab of slate—as the curious investigator may still discern, and perplex himself with the purport—there appeared the semblance of an engraved escutcheon.

四周，有刻有纹章的纪念碑； 在这块简单的石板上——好奇的调查员可能仍然会辨认出来，并对其用途感到困惑——上面出现了一个雕刻的孔罩的外观。