Like where you can have a latte with a tabby.

就像在这里，你可以喝一杯拿铁咖啡。

And our servant Tabby was older than I was.

而我们的老用人比比我岁数还大。

MJ the tabby rides on her owner's shoulder when he delivers packages.

猫咪MJ在她主人送快递时，就骑在她主人的肩膀上。

She was happy to do the housework, and live at home with Tabby and me.

她喜欢做家务，喜欢和比及我一起在家里生活。

Pookie named the Siamese and tabby mix Nala after a lead character in the Lion King.

Pookie仿照《狮子王》中主角的名字，给这只暹罗斑猫起名叫Nala。

We did not let him go upstairs, but one day Tabby found him on my bed.

它不能上楼。可是有一天比发现它睡在我的床上。

" Fancy seeing you here, Professor McGonagall." He turned to smile at the tabby, but it had gone.

“真没想到会在这里见到您，麦格教授。”

There was a tabby cat standing on the corner of Privet Drive, but there wasn't a map in sight.

只见一只花斑猫站在女贞路路口，但是没有看见地图。

Tabby didn't dignify this with a reply—she didn't have to.

塔碧没有答腔表示赞叹——她无需开口。

Tabby asked—rather timidly for my normally outspoken wife—if I thought the book would find a paperback publisher.

塔碧问我——我这位通常有话直说的老婆突然变得胆怯起来，她问我觉得这本书能不能找到简装本出版商。

Tabby was in one of Jim Bishop's rocking chairs that night. I was sitting on the floor beside her.

那天晚上塔碧坐在吉姆·比肖普家的一张摇椅上，我坐在她旁边的地板上。

Tabby somehow knew it, and by the time I had piled up fifty single-spaced pages, I knew it, too.

塔碧不知怎的看出了这一点，等我写满五十页单倍行距稿纸的时候，我自己也明白了这点。

Tabby brought me a Pepsi—cold and sweet and good— and as I drank it I looked around and had to laugh despite the pain.

塔碧给我拿来一罐百事可乐——冰凉甘甜可口——喝饮料的时候我环顾四周，不禁不顾疼痛哑然失笑。

Tabby didn't like the community-service stuff.

塔碧对社区服务这部分很不以为然。

It turned out that Tabby was right—as soon as I saw it in print, I knew.

结果证明塔碧是正确的——我一看到印出来的书页就明白了。

Tabby never voiced a single doubt, however. Her support was a constant, one of the few good things I could take as a given.

可塔碧从来没有过一句怀疑的话。她的支持始终不改，这是生活中我难得能够坦然接受的一件好礼。

Tabby asked if I could quit teaching. I told her no, not based on a twenty-five-hundred-dollar advance and only nebulous possibilities beyond that.

塔碧问我会不会辞去教职。我对她说不行，单靠两千五百美元的预付和那之后渺茫的可能性。

Tabby and I stayed at Brown's Hotel in London, and on our first night there I was unable to sleep.

我和塔碧住在伦敦的布朗酒店，人住的第一夜我睡不着。

Tabby has a way of tilting her chin down when she smiles.

塔碧有个习惯——微笑的时候常会压低下巴。

Ouch. Game, set, and match. Like most good I.R. s, Tabby can be ruthless when she's right.

得，人家大获全胜。与大多数好的理想读者一样，塔碧对的时候经常是毫不留情。