With an infallible sense of the dramatic it chose a little railroad station in a wretched village near Portchester.
凭借对戏剧性的绝对把握,它选择了波特切斯特附近一个破败村庄的一个小火车站。
人与鬼(上)
THAT this hope was to be frustrated Bernald learned from Howland Wade's own lips, the day before the two young men were to meet at Portchester.
伯纳德从豪兰德韦德口中得知,这个希望落空了,就在这两个年轻人在波特切斯特会面的前一天。
人与鬼(上)
Bernald's talk with the Interpreter had revived this ache to the momentary exclusion of other sensations; and he was still sore with it when, the next afternoon, he arrived at Portchester for his second Sunday with the Wades.
" Well, " she admitted finally, " I've been to two or three house parties in Portchester and around in Connecticut—but, of course, that isn't in New York State, is it? And neither is Morristown, " she finished with drowsy irrelevance.
Portchester is a locality and suburb 6km (4mi) northwest of Portsmouth, England. It is part of the borough of Fareham in Hampshire. Once a small village, Portchester is now a busy part of the expanding conurbation between Portsmouth and Southampton on the A27 main thoroughfare. Its population according to the 2001 Census was approximately 17000 residents.