When we heard a moan of pain from the bedroom next door...The cries from the inner room grew louder—and abruptly stopped.

我们隔壁卧室痛苦的呻吟……里屋婴儿的哭声变得渐渐明晰起来——却又猛地一下，戛然而止。

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So complained Francis Atterbury, the Bishop of Rochester, in a 1714 moan about the Palatine refugees from the Rhineland.

罗切斯特的主教Francis Atterbury用一种1714年时控诉从Rhineland来的王室难民的语调这样抱怨道。

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So complained Francis Atterbury, the Bishop of Rochester, in a 1714 moan about the Palatine refugees from the Rhineland.

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Still, when the professors saw one another at the staff club or at church or at a faculty meeting, they were careful to moan about the riffraff from town coming onto their sacred campus to steal.

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But while others moan from the sidelines, let's applaud their sheer optimism in giving it a go.

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