dabble vt. 1.弄濕,濺濕。 2.蘸,浸,沾。 be dabbled with mud (被)濺滿泥漿。 vi. 1.玩水。 2.淺嘗,涉獵,涉足。 dabble in literature 涉獵文學。 dabble in [with] stocks 經營一部分股票。 dabble with the text 竄改原文。
He was a pretty fellow . fauchery recognized him ; it was daguenet , a young man who had run through three hundred thousand francs in the pursuit of women and who now was dabbling in stocks , in order from time to time to treat them to bouquets and dinners 他很和藹可親,福什利認出他來了,他叫達蓋內,在女人身上揮霍掉三十萬法郎,現在只能在交易所里做些小投機,賺點錢,不時給她們買些花束,或請她們吃吃晚飯。
" you are most kind ; but as regards myself , i can find no merit i possess , save that , as a millionaire , i might have become a partner in the speculations of m . aguado and m . rothschild ; but as my motive in travelling to your capital would not have been for the pleasure of dabbling in stocks , i stayed away till some favorable chance should present itself of carrying my wish into execution “您太過獎了,但我覺得自己除了能和阿加多先生或羅斯希爾德先生這些百萬富翁一爭高低以外,別無所長,我到巴黎又不是去做投機生意的,所以遲遲未去。現在您的好意使我下了決心。