监狱建在中世纪古堡的楼顶，是城市的制高点，也就是说，那儿一点都不阴森闭塞，事实上，每天阳光最先造访的便是监狱，最后离开的还是监狱。

This meant that it did not look at all somber. Indeed, it was the first building to catch the rays of the sun and the last to lose them.

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早在公元前7世纪，人们就利用简单的放大镜将阳光集成一束，利用热量点燃木材。

As early as the 7th century B.C., people used simple magnifying glasses to concentrate the light of the sun into beams so hot they would cause wood to catch fire.

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法国的修院，在十九世纪太阳当顶时，是些阳光下枭鸟的窝。

A convent in France, in the broad daylight of the nineteenth century, is a college of owls facing the light.

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