The swishing sound of silk against silk made Mr. Peebles look up. The fortune-teller had entered the chamber. She was a large woman with long, black hair.(絲綢與絲綢的磨擦聲瑟瑟作響，不禁使皮布爾斯先生抬頭看。算命師已經走入房間。她是一個塊頭很大、長著又黑又長頭發的女人。)

In the nineteen-forties, a safe burglar named Nedelkoff set himself up as a fortune-teller in Eastern Europe, and asked clients to press their hands into a soft clay tablet.(在二十世紀40年代，東歐一位名叫內德考夫的保險箱竊賊假扮成算命先生，要求客戶在一塊黏土板上按手印。)

My friend Mike is a fortune-teller.(我的朋友邁克是個算命師。)

We exchanged stories about the last time we'd each cried and confessed the one thing we'd like to ask a fortune-teller.(我們交流了我們最近一次哭泣的故事，并承認了我們想問算命先生的一件事。)

The fortune-teller told me something, about my past, today and future.(這個算命先生告訴了我一些事情，關于我的過去、現在和未來。)

At a village fair, I decided to visit a fortune-teller called madam Bellinsky.(在鄉村的集市上，我決定去拜訪一位稱作別林斯夫人的算命人。)

She just didn't know what to do so, being a sensible old lady, she went to ask her fortune teller to advise her.(但她是一個明智的老人，就決定去問問算命先生。)

Ashley: Oh, she's the tall blonde one, near the fortune-teller.(阿什利：哦，她是一個高大的金發女郎，靠近算命先生。)

“I am aprophet, not a fortune-teller.” Samuel said. I looked him in the eye, and he looked like something forbidding was going to happen.(“我是先知，但不是算命者。”塞繆爾說道。我注視著他，他的表情看起來就像什么嚴重事情就要發生。)

Then I went to the fortune-teller . He told me to sit down, then I gave him some money.(于是我走到算命人的面前，他叫我坐下，然后我給我他一點錢。)