Yet it was not the sweetness of life that this cloister taught me .
然而我在这座回廊里学到的却并非生活的甘美。
The mansion itself had once been a cloister for decrepit nuns , and was surrounded by a sculpted garden .
这个宅邸原本是一座住着老修女们的修道院，它被一个精雕细琢的花园所包围着。
Children had in vaded the cloister and were playing leapfrog over the tombstones that strove to perpetuate their virtues .
孩子们跑到回廊来，拿墓碑做跳马游戏，而墓碑还在努力使他们的美德流芳百世。
I would also spend long hours in the little gothic cloister of san francisco . Its delicate , precious colonnade shone with the fine , golden yellow of old spanish monuments .
