Her jet-black hair,naturally or artfully waved,was parted over her forehead in two thick coils which vanished behind her head,just exposing the lobes of her ears from which hung two diamonds each worth four or five thousand francs.

• 黑玉色的头发，不知是天然的还是梳理成的，像波浪一样地鬈曲着，在额前分梳成两大绺，一直拖到脑后，露出两个耳垂，耳垂上闪烁着两颗各值四五千法郎的钻石耳环。