” bead-work”漏譯

呂叔湘先生的翻譯本中文多妙解（譬如說將在郵局”等候”（waited）發信翻譯成”伺候”；我學到”木強”…….），不過如上bay例，不夠具體。這可以又從本書末段：

She took off her spectacles again, leaned toward me across the bead-work table-cover, and went on with lowered voice: "There was one day, about a week after the accident, when they all thought Mattie couldn't live...

將” bead-work”漏譯了。

這可能是當初並未想到出版"對照翻譯"本.....

王鎮國先生的翻譯本中規中矩，少掉字。上句翻譯成”綴有小珠”的桌布。