He seemed to breathe again the warm stuffy odour of the basement kitchen, an odour compounded of bugs and dirty clothes and villainous cheap scent, but nevertheless alluring, because no woman of the Party ever used scent, or could be imagined as doing so.

• 他仿佛又呼吸到地下厨房那种暖烘烘的味儿，那种脏衣服、贱香水外带臭虫味儿。 那香水味儿直叫人作呕，然而不乏诱人的地方，因为党的女人绝不用香水，简直没法想象她们也会用香水。