1. Mr. Fotheringay suddenly decided to consult Mr. Maydig，…

佛澤林蓋突然決定找梅迪格先生一下 ……

consult： 向 …… 請教，，查閱（字典）；與 …… 商量

You should consult with Mary about it. 你該和瑪麗商量那件事。

2.What I want to know is whether what I am going to do with it is a miracle or not.

我想知道的是，我把它（煙草缸）變來變去這到底算不算奇跡。

do with ： 處置，對付

I don't know what to do with these used books. 我不知道如何處置這些用過的舊書。

do with 與 can 連用 ： 忍受 ， 滿意

I can't do with children’s cry. 我無法忍受孩子的哭。

3.…and presently he ventured to lean over the table and smell the violets.

接著它裝著膽子伏過身去，聞了聞桌子上紫羅蘭。

venture to do ： 大膽去做，冒昧去做，（正式）鼓起勇氣去做

Very few people venture to go out at night in a snow storm.

很少有人敢在暴風雪晚上出去。

He decided to venture all his money on the scheme.

他決定冒險把他所有的錢都投到那個項目里去。

He ventured his life to rescue the drowning woman.

他冒著生命危險去救那個快淹死的婦女

4.Just told it—and there you are .

只要給個命令就行了。

I just said what I wanted to happen and this is t he result

There you are ： 在解釋或演示某件事時，用來表示事情很簡單。

You just put the food in it， switch on and press the button and there you are.

你只要把食物放進去，接上電源，按一下開關，這就行了。

5.…I knew no more that I could do things like that than you did. 我跟你一樣，也不知道我還能作這樣的事。

I knew that I could do such things as little as you did./ I was as ignorant of my miraculous powers as you were.

no more…than/not…any more than 與 …… 一樣（不） ……

I know no more about the British history than a ten-year old schoolboy.

關于英國歷史，我的知識和一個 10 歲的孩子一樣不多。

He is no more fit to be a minister than a pupil of grade two in a primary school.