placed in a basket lined with tar, put in the river, and so on.

他也被装在一个涂了柏油的篮子里，放在河边等等。

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But he got set up by somebody, by a French person--more about this in a minute, and he was supposed to meet somebody on a bridge overlooking the Saone River Lyon was at the confluence of the Rhone and the Saone.

但他被人设计了,被一个法国人--马上再说这个,他本来要和一个人在桥上见面,桥横跨在索恩河上,里昂在罗讷河和索恩河的交汇处

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So there is this story about his Uncle Hoskins who takes his horse and cart with Richard in the back and drives it into the middle of the Mississippi River as a kind of practical joke on Richard.

有个故事是关于他的叔叔Hoskins的,他让理查坐在他的马车后,却连人带车掉到密西西比河里,这被作为了一个理查的真实笑话。

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