My knees shook so badly as she fastened the long line of pearl buttons up my back that the satin quivered in little wavelets down to the floor.

• 在她将一长串珍珠纽扣扣起时，我的膝盖开始剧烈颤动起来，以致于身上的缎子漾着小波弧一路传到地面上。