We have an old musical instrument. It is called a clavichord.

我家有件，被称作钢。

Our clavichord is kept in the living room.

我们的这架钢存放在起居室里。

While the others were taking their siestas she would practice the clavichord for two hours, knowing that the daily sacrifice would keep Fernanda calm.

当其他人正在午睡时，她会练习击弦钢两个小时，因为她知道每天的牺牲会让费尔南达保持平静。

During the boredom of her abandonment her only distractions were the clavichord lessons at siesta time and the letters from her children.

在她被遗弃的无聊，她唯一的分心是午睡时间的锁弦课和孩子们的来信。

Fernanda's opposition lasted until the day when Meme broke down her resistance with the news that the Americans wanted to hear her play the clavichord.

Fernanda 的反对一直持续到 Meme 用美国人想听她演奏击弦钢的消息打破了她的抵抗。

They spoke in whispers, ate in silence, recited the rosary three times a day, and even clavichord practice during the heat of siesta time had a funereal echo.

他们低声说话，默默地吃饭，每天念三遍念珠，甚至在午睡时练习击弦钢有葬礼般的回声。

" A Pope! " Three months later Aureliano Segundo and Fernanda took Meme to school and came back with a clavichord, which took the place of the pianola.

“一个教皇！”三个月后，奥雷里亚诺第二和费尔南达带梅梅去学校，带回了击弦钢，取代了钢。

Every year for two months Aureliano Segundo played his role of an exemplary husband and heorganized parties with ice cream and cookies which the gay and lively schoolgirl enhanced with the clavichord.

每年有两个月的时间，奥雷里亚诺第二扮演模范丈夫的角色，他组织聚会，供应冰淇淋和饼干，而活泼的女学生则用击弦钢增强了这些聚会。

Her frivolous and even slightly infantile character did not seem up to any serious activity, but when she sat down at the clavichord she became a different girl, one whose unforeseen maturity gave her the air of an adult.

她那轻浮甚至有点幼稚的性格似乎不适合任何严肃的活动，但当她坐在击弦钢上时， 她就变成了一个不同的女孩， 她出人意料的成熟让她有了大人的气息。

Meme, his sister, dividing her time between Fernanda's rigidity and Amaranta's bitterness, at almost the same moment reached the age set for her to be sent to the nuns' school, where they wouldmake a virtuoso on the clavichord of her.

梅梅，他的妹妹，在费尔南达的固执和阿玛兰塔的苦涩之间消磨时光，几乎在同一时刻， 她到了规定的年龄， 可以被送到修女学校， 在那里他们会把她培养成击弦钢的演奏家。