On this head she knew by prevision what most women learn only by experience—she had mentally walked round love, told the towers thereof, considered its palaces, and concluded that love was but a doleful joy.
能预知许多女人要靠实践才能直到的许多事情,在脑海里已周游了爱情这片国土,细评它的城楼,察看它的宫殿,并由此得出结论:爱情是一种饱含愁苦的欢悦。