Ove continues fingering the corrugated iron.

欧维继续摆弄铁皮。

" Do you have any corrugated iron? " he asks back.

“你家有波形铁皮吗？”他问。

" Corrugated iron; that's it, " says Ove with a nod.

“对，铁皮。”欧维点头。

" You got any corrugated iron? " wonders Ove, without allowing any time for small talk.

“你家有波形铁皮吗？”欧维也不寒暄，开门见山地问。

Ove stays where he is with the sheet of corrugated iron in his hand and the cat at his side.

欧维手里拿铁皮和猫一起留在原地。

And then he packs up the battery and clamps and corrugated iron and puts everything in the garage.

他收起电池、钳子和铁皮，把它塞进车库。

He lays out the sheet of corrugated iron across the paving stones between the shed and the house and carefully covers it with snow.

然后他把那片大铁皮铺在储藏室和房子之间的地上，仔细地在上面盖上一层雪。

You can see it on corrugated iron roofs, metal gates in the countryside and so on.

你可以在乡村的波纹铁皮屋顶、金属大门等处看到它的身影。

A minute later, Ove turns up triumphantly in the doorway, dragging a gigantic piece of corrugated iron, as big as a living room rug.

一分钟之后，欧维得意地拽一块巨大的波形铁皮出现在门廊外，那铁皮跟客厅用的地毯差不多大。

" Corrugated iron? " he says to himself, as if tasting the word, like someone who's just woken up and is intensely trying to remember what he's been dreaming.

“铁皮？”他自言自语道，就像要把这个词咀嚼一遍似的，恰似如梦初醒的人在努力回忆梦境。

Yet we spend money and spend money on roads and dam if it isn't like trying to drive over a sheet of corrugated iron roofing.

然而，如果这不像试图驶过波纹铁皮屋顶那样， 我就会在道路和水坝上花钱。

As one does when faced with the undeniable fact that a bit of corrugated iron is the sort of thing that all normal, right-thinking people keep lying about in their sheds, just in case there's call for it.

那样子，就像终于承认波形铁皮实际上就是人人储藏室里都会有的那么一点以备不时之需的东西。

As one does when facing the indisputable fact that there's nothing odd about a normal man without a metal roof getting through his corrugated iron at such a rate that it runs out.

就像在认可一个没有铁皮屋顶的人毫不费劲就把波形铁皮用完了这件事一点都不奇怪。

Leila had learned to dance at boarding school. Every Saturday afternoon the boarders were hurried off to a little corrugated iron mission hall where Miss Eccles (of London) held her " select" classes.

莱拉在寄宿学校学会了跳舞。每个星期六下午，寄宿生都被匆匆赶往一个波纹铁皮的小布道所，埃克尔斯小姐（来自伦敦）在那里举办她的“精选”课程。

It is terrible to see in China the first wave of this Western flood flinging along the coasts and rivers and railway lines its scrofulous foam of advertisements, of corrugated iron roofs, of vulgar, meaningless architectural form.

可怕的是，在中国看到西方洪水的第一波浪潮沿海岸、河流和铁路线席卷而来，它的广告泡沫、波纹铁皮屋顶、庸俗的、毫无意义的建筑形式。

Were there always these vistas of rotting nineteenth-century houses, their sides shored up with baulks of timber, their windows patched with cardboard and their roofs with corrugated iron, their crazy garden walls sagging in all directions?

他竭力想挤出一些童年时代的记忆来，能够告诉他伦敦是不是一直都是这样的。

And to help her mother, who had tried so hard to keep her in school by selling her only assets, a stack of corrugated iron sheets she had been saving in the hope of building a better home for her children.

为了帮助她的母亲，她一直努力通过卖掉她唯一的资产来让她继续上学，她一直在积蓄一堆波纹铁皮， 希望能为她的孩子建造一个更好的家。