A housewife cannot buy a partridge without the neighbors asking the husband if it were cooked to a turn.
如果邻居问丈夫是否煮熟了,家庭主妇就不能买鹧鸪。
傲慢与偏见(原版)
The dinner was as well dressed as any I ever saw. The venison was roasted to a turn and everybody said they never saw so fat a haunch.
饭菜烹调得从来没有过的那么好。鹿肉烧得恰到好处,大家都说,从来没有见过这么肥的腰肉。
《傲慢与偏见》英音版(Emilia Fox朗读)
I think every thing has passed off uncommonly well, I assure you. The dinner was as well dressed as any I ever saw. The venison was roasted to a turn—and everybody said, they never saw so fat a haunch.
Done to a turn, for I superintended the cooking of it myself: It was a little Gallician of my own raising, may it please your Holiness, and the flesh was as white as an egg-shell, as indeed Donna Elvira told me herself.