For, once she owned the earbobs, they had lost their value, as everything except money lost its value once it was hers.

那副耳坠她也曾热烈地向往过，可是一旦得到，它们就没什么得可贵的了，就像除了金钱以外的任何东西那样，一到她手里就失掉了。

Pretty young Mrs. Hamilton, with her dimple and her jingling earbobs and her helpless little ways, blowing a man's face to a pulp and then burying him in a hastily scratched-out hole!

年的汉密尔顿太太，两颊上漾着酒窝，戴着丁丁当当的耳附子，看起来似乎懦弱无能，却居然把一个男人的脸打得稀烂，然后赶忙刨了个坑把他埋了！思嘉狰狞地笑了笑，心想要是那些认识她的人知道了这件事，他们会吓成什么样子埃" 我再也不去想这件事了，" 她这样决定。事情既然过去就完了。