Nevertheless, it came to pass that Jean Valjean sometimes espied him.

espy One day Robinson Cruson espied a foot print on the sand.

v.看出；探出有一天鲁滨逊.克鲁索看到沙上的一个脚印。

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There were many antiques which we could espy the great culture.

有许多古董，由此我们可以追溯伟大的文化。

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One day a youth espied her as he was hunting.She saw him and recognized him as her own son, mow grown a young man.

一日，她被一个正在行猎的小伙子看见了，她认出来这个猎手原来是自己的儿子，现在已长成为一个翩翩的少年

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She suddenly espied someone waving at her from the window.

她突然看见有人在窗口朝她招手。

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The designers, who, starting in 1997, carved out a solid niche in a once fusty and now booming category, men's swimwear, overcame their initial hesitance to enter a field dominated by designers like Mr. Hilfiger when customers expressed their desire for underwear, Mr. Lutter said,

从1997年，这两位设计师在曾经死气沉沉而今十分兴旺的男装市场中开拓了一个重要的细分市场：男士泳衣。当顾客们表达出对内裤的需求时，他们克服最初的犹豫，进入这个由希尔费格等设计师主导的领域。

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This time it came with a Prize Record Book, which Alan wrote 'was most fascinatingly done and bears such a spirit of Chris in the clear bright illumination.' The Morcoms had commissioned it in a contemporary neo-mediaeval style, which stood out sharply from the fusty Sherborne background.

他得到了一张证书，写着“你卓越的表现不负克里斯的精神”。默卡一家为这个奖项赋予了现代风格，使它在古板的舍尔伯尼背景上显得很突出。

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Behind us is a life-sized caricature doll of Diana Vreeland, the former US Vogue editor who, in 1971, transformed the Costume Institute from being a fusty old repository for clothes into one of the world's foremost destinations for radical fashion display.

我俩身后是一尊美国《Vogue》前任主编黛安娜•弗里兰（Diana Vreeland）真人模样的漫画玩偶像。正是黛安娜•弗里兰在1971年把服装学院这个昔日存放破旧衣服的储物室脱胎换骨、成为全球最富盛名的激进式时尚展览圣地。

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Though Samantha hated the fusty four-bedroom flat when they arrived in 2010, the couple spent tens of thousands in their own cash redecorating it, installing a top-of-the-range kitchen and open-plan sitting room.

尽管萨曼莎在2010年搬来这里时很讨厌这套老旧的四卧室公寓，卡梅伦夫妇还是自掏腰包拿出数十万元重新装修，配置了最高端的厨房和开放式起居室。

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The audience is also puzzled by those fusty and arid proclaims, critics and satires, which pretend to be the forever essence of female artists.

观众们的观看也是如此，似乎那些与女性的身份地位有关的陈腐而无趣的宣言，批判，讽刺，永远都会是女性艺术的核心。

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Most of all, they are part of a Zeitgeist in which the law is increasingly a global business like any other, rather than a fusty industry remote from the wider financial world.

最重要的是，它们是时代精神的一部分：和其它任何行业一样，法律已经日益成为全球事业，而不是与广阔金融世界脱离的古板行业。

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The goal is also to allow directors to make Italy's art-rich but often fusty museums easier for tourists to navigate-with better presentation, labels and organization.

意大利的博物馆充满艺术气息，但往往比较陈旧。这次变革的另一个目的是让馆长们提升陈列方式、标牌和组织秩序，更便于游客参观。

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A genuine, if seemingly clueless, attempt to shed a fusty "old media" image and forge ahead into the glorious digital future?

还是为了摆脱发霉的“传统媒体”形象，勇敢地迈入辉煌的数字化未来而进行的一种真正意义上（但看似没有什么章法）的尝试？

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But critics complain that they also seek to extend fusty regulations from the era of broadcast television to today's very different technologies.

但是批评家指出他们还要改进那些广播电视时代的旧法条，以（适应）时下已全然不同的新技术。

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Until a few years ago, most of the five-star hotels in Tokyo were fusty affairs.

几年前，东京的大部分五星级酒店都很破旧。

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I don't think he lets his clothes dry properly before he puts them away somehow they always smell fusty.

我想他把衣服放起来之前没有把它们好好地弄干&小知怎的，总有股霉味。

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I was sent to a fusty old school in the country.

我被送进了乡下一所古老守旧的学校。

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But by 2007 though foreign tourists still made the nostalgic journey to the fusty old landmark where rooms cost about$ 100 a night the hotel was overcome by damp and decay.

但到2007年，尽管外国游客还会花上每晚约100美元，去这个过时的旧地标做一次怀旧之旅，但整座饭店都充斥着一股潮腐的味道。

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At its height Bletchley Park employed 12,000 people

布莱奇利园的雇员数在巅峰时期曾达1.2万人。

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The Central Intelligence Agency employed a goodly number of expert professionals in this particular field

中央情报局雇用了一大批这一领域的顶尖专业人才。

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I need my people on the street.

我的街区也需要人手的。

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