Although Miss Fan was so refined and elegant, yet even she would have liked to spit out the dregs of her meat, and after half a cup of wine too much, the unrouged portion of her face was as pink as the veal displayed in foreign butcher shops.

• 范小姐虽然斯文，精致得恨不能吃肉都吐渣，但多喝了半杯酒，脸上没涂胭脂的地方都作粉红色，仿佛外国肉庄里陈列的小牛肉。