Necessity had made the poor girl so niggardly that Grandet had grown to love her as we love a dog, and Nanon had let him fasten a spiked collar round her throat, whose spikes no longer pricked her.
穷困潦倒使这可怜的姑娘变得如此吝啬,以致格朗台爱她就像爱狗一样,娜农让他在她的喉咙上系上带刺的项圈,这样她的喉咙就再也不会刺痛了。