composite order of architecture. built for "style," not service--she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well.

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/74/pg74.txt

《湯姆歷險記》（The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain），台北：正中書局，1953年。（1953 民四二 卅一歲 翻譯馬克吐溫之《湯姆歷險記》（The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain），由正中書局出版。此書為以「姚一葦」之名寫作之始，嗣後以筆名聞於世。）

【這本的翻譯本極多…….】

舉Preface中的
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was a great success and is considered a classic ...whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture.

PREFACE

Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two
were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates
of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an
individual--he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom
I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture.

董昭輝英文注解本："The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"台北：遠東，1967 {遠東本}

 composite order of architecture 複合式建造物


《湯姆索耶歷險記》南京：譯林，2000{譯林本}
這一形象類似建築上的混合型結構。

查辭典和Wiki可知更確切的說法：2 ((C-))《建築》コンポジット式の，混合柱式の：イオニア様式とコリント様式を折衷した.

1. 混合柱式是一種出現於古羅馬時期的大理石柱樣式，結合了愛奧尼亞和科林斯柱式的風格，柱首採用渦紋，以葉形裝飾。Wikipedia： English

 "composite order of architecture"在此文脈下是人物Tom 是由3位小孩的特性所綜合而成。

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第1章：

The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the

room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or
never looked _through_ them for so small a thing as a boy; they were
her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not
service--she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well.
She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but
still loud enough for the furniture to hear:

"Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll--"

 據{遠東本}，上文黑體字意思：它們是為了好看而作的，不是為了實用。...她戴那副眼鏡，還不如戴一副火爐鐵蓋(同樣對他的視力無幫助)。

{譯林本}：戴上它是為了"體面"，而非實用---她就是眼前罩上一對火爐蓋，也啥都能看得清清楚楚。