He looked wistfully at the dice and box lying on the mantlepiece.

他眼巴巴地望着搁在壁炉架上的骰子和装骰子的盒子。

It took his fancy immensely, and he put it on his mantlepiece as an article of virtue, so it was rather a failure after all.

他非常喜欢，把它当作一件美德放在壁炉架上，所以它终究是一个失败品。

Books and papers everywhere, a broken meerschaum, and an old flute over the mantlepiece as if done with, a ragged bird without any tail chirped on one window seat, and a box of white mice adorned the other.

到处都是书籍和文件，一只破损的海泡石，壁炉架上的一只旧笛子好像已经用完了，一只破烂的没有尾巴的鸟在一个靠窗的座位上叽叽喳喳地叫着，另一个靠窗的座位上装饰着一盒白老鼠。

" If she only had a servant or two it would be all right, " said Amy, coming out of the parlor, where she had been trying to decide whether the bronze Mercury looked best on the whatnot or the mantlepiece.

“她要是有一两个仆人就好了，”艾米说，从会客室里走出来，她曾在里头忙于决定那座青铜墨丘利像是放在什锦橱内好还是放在壁炉台上好。