Tall and slender almost to a fault,she possessed in the highest degree the art of concealing this oversight of nature simply by the way she arranged the clothes she wore.

• 她身材颀长苗条稍许过了点分，可她有一种非凡的才能，只要在穿着上稍稍花些功夫，就把这种造化的疏忽给掩饰过去了。