It was a huge quadrilateral with canted corners, ten meters long, six wide, five high.

这客厅是一个长方形的大房间，长十米，宽六米，高五米，

A luminous1 ceiling, decorated with delicate arabesques2, distributed a soft, clear daylight over all the wonders gathered in this museum.

夭花板饰有淡淡的图案花纹，装在天花板上的灯球射出明亮柔和的光线，照耀着陈列在这博物馆中的奇珍异宝。

For a museum it truly was, in which clever hands had spared no expense to amass3 every natural and artistic4 treasure,

因为这客厅实际上是一所博物馆，一只智慧的妙手把自然界和艺术上的一切珍奇都聚在这里，

displaying them with the helter-skelter picturesqueness5 that distinguishes a painter's studio.

使它带着一个画家工作室所特有的那种富有艺术性的凌乱。

Some thirty pictures by the masters, uniformly framed and separated by gleaming panoplies6 of arms, adorned7 walls on which were stretched tapestries8 of austere9 design.

四周的墙壁悬挂着图案壁毯，壁毯上点缀着三十来幅名画，画框子都是一式一样的，每幅画之间隔以闪闪发亮的武器饰物。

There I saw canvases of the highest value, the likes of which I had marveled at in private European collections and art exhibitions.

我看见其中有不少名贵的作品，大部分我在欧洲私人的收藏馆中，或在图画展览会上曾经欣赏过。