But slightly reassured and trembling in every limb, the person in question advanced to the edge of the marble table with a profusion of bows which, the nearer he approached, assumed more and more the character of genuflections.

• 这人提心吊胆，战战兢兢，毕恭毕敬往前走，越往前走便越近似卑躬屈膝，就这样走到了大理石台子的边沿。