We have an old musical instrument. It is called a clavichord.

家有件古乐器，被称作古钢琴。

Our clavichord is kept in the living room.

这架古钢琴存放在起居室里。

While the others were taking their siestas she would practice the clavichord for two hours, knowing that the daily sacrifice would keep Fernanda calm.

当其他人正在午睡时，她会练习击弦古钢琴两个小时，因为她知道每天牺牲会让费尔南达保持平静。

During the boredom of her abandonment her only distractions were the clavichord lessons at siesta time and the letters from her children.

在她被遗弃无聊，她唯一分心是午睡时间锁弦课和孩子来信。

Fernanda's opposition lasted until the day when Meme broke down her resistance with the news that the Americans wanted to hear her play the clavichord.

Fernanda 反对一直持续到 Meme 用美国人想听她演奏击弦古钢琴消息打破了她抵抗。

They spoke in whispers, ate in silence, recited the rosary three times a day, and even clavichord practice during the heat of siesta time had a funereal echo.

他低声说话，默默，每天念三遍念珠，甚至在午睡时练习击弦古钢琴也有葬礼般回声。

" A Pope! " Three months later Aureliano Segundo and Fernanda took Meme to school and came back with a clavichord, which took the place of the pianola.

“一个教皇！”三个月后，奥雷里亚诺第二和费尔南达带梅梅去学校，带回了击弦古钢琴，取代了钢琴。

Every year for two months Aureliano Segundo played his role of an exemplary husband and heorganized parties with ice cream and cookies which the gay and lively schoolgirl enhanced with the clavichord.

每年有两个月时间，奥雷里亚诺第二扮演模范丈夫角色，他组织聚会，供应冰淇淋和饼干，而活泼女学生则用击弦古钢琴增强了这些聚会。

Her frivolous and even slightly infantile character did not seem up to any serious activity, but when she sat down at the clavichord she became a different girl, one whose unforeseen maturity gave her the air of an adult.

她那轻浮甚至有点幼稚性格似乎不适合任何严肃活动，但当她坐在击弦古钢琴上时， 她就变成了一个不同女孩， 她出人意料成熟让她有了大人气息。

Meme, his sister, dividing her time between Fernanda's rigidity and Amaranta's bitterness, at almost the same moment reached the age set for her to be sent to the nuns' school, where they wouldmake a virtuoso on the clavichord of her.

梅梅，他妹妹，在费尔南达固执和阿玛兰塔苦涩之间消磨时光，几乎在同一时刻， 她到了规定年龄， 可以被送到修女学校， 在那里他会把她培养成击弦古钢琴演奏家。