The only regular visitors to the monastery in winter are parties of skiers who go there at Christmas and Easter.

冬天常来修道院参观的只有一批批滑雪者。他们在圣诞节或复活节到那儿去。

In times of peace, when business was bad, Hawkwood and his men would march into a city-state and, after burning down a few farms, would offer to go away protection money was paid to them.

和平时期，当生意萧条时，霍克伍德便带领士兵进入某个城邦，纵火烧毁一两个农场，然后提出，如向他们缴纳保护金，他们便主动撤离。

He was sent to prison for failing to pay his debts and died in poverty in 1836.

他因无力还债而被捕入狱，最后于1836年在贫困中死去。

A long-lost brother, who was presumed dead, was really alive all the time and wickedly plotting to bring about the hero's downfall.And so on.

主人公一位长期失散的兄弟，大家都以为死了，实际上一直活着，并且正在策划暗算主人公；如此等等，

found a brother who was thought to have been killed twenty years before.

巴斯曼如何找到了据信已在20年前死去的兄弟的事。

As far as I could see, it needed only a minor adjustment: a turn of a screw here, a little tightening up there, a drop of oil and it would be as good as new.

在我看来，只需稍加调整即可。这儿紧紧螺丝，那儿固定一下，再加几滴油，就会像新的一样了。