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.

闷的雾气仍然笼罩着这座城市，但前方是一个清新的世界， 波涛汹涌的水域， 远处的海角和阳光下的灯塔。

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.

带着想要的那种闷的微笑， 很快就会把成紫色， 或者把南瓜成黄色， 而不是从旁观者的记忆中融化铁烙印的印象。

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.

抬起头来，——起初用严厉而敏锐的目光，立刻穿透了拱形窗户后面的黑暗，——然后带着微笑，这微笑可以被认为是在周围几码的空间里散发着三伏天的闷。 .