第二天早上,我吃早餐时无精打采地看着报纸,看到了这段话:1863年,于瓦卡瓦克,34人控告州长候选人马克吐温先生作伪证。他打算掠夺一个贫穷女人的土地,她丈夫死后,这块地是她唯一的容身之所和支撑。
The next morning, as I was looking listlessly over the papers at breakfast, I came across this paragraph: PERJURY—Mr. Mark Twain, a candidate for Governor, was convicted of perjury by thirty-four people, in Wakawak, in 1863. He intended to rob a poor woman of her land, her only stay and support after her husband died.
他打算前往距离一个小时路程远的医院去看望他的资助人。这位先生现在为他在研究所的学习支付费用,最近生病了。
He was traveling to the hospital an hour away to visit his patron, the man who was paying for his graduate school and who had recently become ill.
有资料表明在取道纽约的途中,他打算筹集资金,准备远征取回他的战利品,但却从船上掉下不知所踪了。
Sources suggest that en route to New York, where he planned to raise funds for an expedition to recover his prize, he disappeared overboard.
But it's a difficult claim because even as Milton makes this claim, he manages to undermine its force.
但这是困难的,因为即便是弥尔顿做出了这一宣告,他也打算降低它所蕴含的威力。
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