The fog of sultriness still hung over the city, but ahead lay a fresh world of ruffled waters, and distant promontories with light-houses in the sun.

闷雾气仍然笼罩着这座城市，但前方是一个清新世界， 波涛汹涌水域， 远处海角和阳光塔。

After such a revelation, let him smile with what sultriness he would, he could much sooner turn grapes purple, or pumpkins yellow, than melt the iron-branded impression out of the beholder's memory.

让他带着他想要那种闷微笑， 他很快就会葡萄变成紫色， 或瓜变成黄色， 而不是从旁观记忆中融化铁烙印印象。

He looked up, —at first with a stern, keen glance, which penetrated at once into the obscurity behind the arched window, —then with a smile which might be conceived as diffusing a dog-day sultriness for the space of several yards about him.

他抬起头来，——起初用严厉而敏锐目光，立刻穿透了拱形窗户后面黑暗，——然后带着微笑，这微笑可以被认为是在他周围几码空间里散发着三伏天闷。 .