And somebody once wrote many a superb champion of Longchamps, that is the racetrack, met their end on the table of some well-heeled person from the western fancy districts of Paris.

有人写过那些朗克汉普斯获的冠军赛马,朗克汉普斯是赛道名,它们的一生结束于一个,巴黎富人区的有钱人的餐桌上

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Elliott Gorn, a wonderful historian up at Brown, wrote a brilliant, fascinating, half-crazy essay once about eye-gouging and Southern fighting.

艾略特·龚是布朗时期一个伟大的历史家,他写了一本很有趣,很引人入胜,口味很重的一本小说,是关于南方式打架和挖眼珠的

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He wrote once that, "The chief thing is to know your duties and our edicts by heart and not put off things until tomorrow, like his son did.

他曾经这样写道,"最要紧的事就是牢记我们的职责和法令,并且不把今天能做的事拖延到明天去做",他儿子就是这么拖沓的

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