The cornelian appeased anger, and the hyacinth provoked sleep, and the amethyst drove away the fumes of wine.

红玉髓平息怒火，风信子催眠，紫水晶驱散酒气。

It was pleasant to drive back to the hotel in the late afternoon, above a sea as mysteriously colored as the agates and cornelians of childhood, green as green milk, blue as laundry water, wine dark.

时分开车回酒店是一件令人愉快的事情，大海方的大海颜色神秘，像童年时的玛瑙和玉髓，绿得像绿牛奶，蓝得像洗衣水，深酒红色。

Raisky only noticed with what rapidity and certainty he wrote the figures, how the waistcoat with the cornelian seal and then the snuff-spattered shirt front came nearer — nothing, except the solution of the problem, escaped him.

基只注意到他以多么迅速和确定的速度写下数字，带有玉髓印章的背心和沾满鼻烟的衬衫前襟是如何越来越近——除了解决问题之外，没有什么能逃过他的注意。