科奇勒先生很少进行国事访问,并怠慢外国来访者,这让他臭名远扬。
Mr Kirchner rarely travelled and notoriously snubbed foreign visitors.
他对所有来访的外国知识分子来说,成了伦敦的主要景色之一,而他也会慷慨地款待这些拜访者。
He becomes one of the principal sights of London for all visiting intellectual foreigners, whom he entertains handsomely.
这样的名声不仅为外国人知晓,也在俄国人中间流传,如一首写于1825年的诗歌所说:“害怕严冬 无边的冰雪,无人来访,这悲惨的地方,这流放者的大监狱。”
As an 1825 poem has it: "Fearing the winters/ Endless and icy/ Nobody will visit/ This wretched country/ This vast prison house for exiles."
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