My sister,仿写《Gone with the wind》

原文: Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father. But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw. Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted atbthe ends. Above them, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin—that skin so prized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia suns.

仿写:

My sister was not smart, but people seldom realized it when caught by her vigor and quickness. Her eyes were pitch black with a little touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and never slightly tilted at the ends, just like a brush. Above them, her thick black brows slanted slightly upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her snow-white skin tinted with pale pink on her cheeks - that skin so prized by surrounding people and not carefully guarded with hat.

原文:Seated with Stuart and Brent Tarleton in the cool shade of the porch of Tara, her father's plantation, that bright April afternoon of 1861,she made a pretty picture. Her new green flowered-muslin dress spread its twelve yards of billowing material over her hoops and exactly matched the flat-heeled green morocco slippers her father had recently brought her from Atlanta. The dress set off to perfection the seventeen-inch waist, the smallest in three countries, and the tightly fitting basque showed breasts well matured for her sixteen years.

仿写:

Seated with me in the cool shade of a pavilion, not far from our home, she made a pretty picture. Her new white dress spread its several yards of billowing material over her legs and exacted matched the flat-heeled white sandle my mother had recently brought her from Taobao. The dress set off to perfection the slim waist.

原文:But for all the modesty of her spreading skirts, the demureness of hair netted smoothly into a chignon and the quietness of small white hands folded in her lap, her true self was poor concealed. The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor. Her manners had been imposed upon her by her mother's gentle admonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy; her eyes were her own.

仿写:

But for all the modesty of her spreading skirts, the demureness of hair netted smoothly into a ponytail, and the quietness of large white hands folded in her lap, her true self was poorly concealed. The black eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful,full of life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor. Her manners had been imposed upon her by social morality and the longing for presenting a gentle lady in front of people; her eyes were her own.

原文:On either side of her, the twins lounged easily in their chairs, squinting at the sunlight through tall mint-garnished glasses as they laughed and talked, their long legs, booted to the knee and thick with saddle muscles, crossed negligently. Nineteen years old, six feet inches tall, long of bone and hard of muscle, with sunburned faces and deep auburn hair, their eyes merry and arrogant, their bodies clothed in identical blue caots and mustard-colored breeches, they were as much  alike as two bolls of cotton.

仿写:

On the right hand of her, I lounged easily in my seat, squinting at the sunlight through the pillar as I laughted and talked, my long eyes crossed negligently.Twenty-three years old, 162 centimeters tall, with white faces and hazel hair, my eyes merry and lively, my bodies clothed in white T-shirt and jeans.