and, in another instance, wearing stockings and slippers, to make out with her foot the outlines and colours of a picture hidden under a carpet.

还有一次，她穿着长筒袜子和拖鞋，能用脚步识别出藏在地毯下面的一幅画的轮廓和颜色。

It did not, however, remain within the confines of his estate.

然而，这种疾病并未被局限在他的庄园内，

It is said that the nerve poison is the more primitive of the two, that the blood poison is, so to speak, a newer product from an improved formula.

据说，神经毒液在两种毒液中是较为原始的一种，而溶血性毒液，打个比方说，是根据改良配方生产的一种较新的产品。

runs the gentle slope of the continental shelf, geologically part of the continents.

从地质学上来说，它是大陆的一部分。

easily obtainable from the lunar rocks in the form of liquid oxygen.

从月球上的岩石中很容易提炼出液态氧，

only of metal, which wears away by friction.

而是由金属组成，而金属可以随着磨擦而磨损殆尽。