I have been able to invest them with none of those characteristics which make the persons of a book exist with a real life of their own; and, wondering if the fault is mine, I rack my brains to remember idiosyncrasies which might lend them vividness.
I feel that by dwelling on some trick of speech or some queer habit I should be able to give them a significance peculiar to themselves. As they stand they are like the figures in an old tapestry; they do not separate themselves from the background, and at a distance seem to lose their pattern, so that you have little but a pleasing piece of colour. My only excuse is that the impression they made on me was no other.
1)As they stand - 这里的stand是什么意思呢?
2)you have little but a pleasing... 中little是代词,“几乎没有”的意思吗?
3)was no other - 怎么理解? 为什么没有than出现呢?
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