" Not altogether the selling of reddle? "

“不完全是卖红土吧？”

" I gave up dealing in reddle last Christmas, " said Venn.

“去年圣诞节时我就不做红土生意了，”维恩。

Reddle spreads its lively hues over everything it lights on, and stamps unmistakably, as with the mark of Cain, any person who has handled it half an hour.

红土落到任何物体，都能将其鲜亮的色彩铺撒开来，任何人触摸红土半个小时，就隐一样，留下晰的印记。

" Nonsense. All that reddlemen do is sell reddle. You see all these bags at the back of my cart? They are not full of little boys—only full of red stuff."

“。红土贩子就是卖红土。你看见车后面那些袋子了吗？里面装的不是孩子——只是红土材料。”

When the farmers who had wished to buy in a new stock of reddle during the last month had inquired where Venn was to be found, people replied, " On Egdon Heath."

上个月里那些想买红土的农民问起维恩在什么地方时，人们的回答是：“在埃格敦荒原上。”

During the interval he had shifted his position even further from hers than it had originally been, by adopting the reddle trade; though he was really in very good circumstances still.

在这段时间里，他干起了卖红土的行当，虽然他的境遇仍然很宽裕，他的地位跟原先相比，却是离托玛茜更远了。

But the sale of reddle was not Diggory's primary object in remaining on the heath, particularly at so late a period of the year, when most travellers of his class had gone into winter quarters.

但是卖红土不是迪格利待在荒原上的主要目的，特别是在一年里这么晚的季节，干他这行当的大多数人都已去了冬天的住地。