19世纪第一个十年里的农民们想象不到40年后的情况，他们土地上纵横交错的铁路连接起了东部的港口和西部的市场。
Farmers in the first decades of the 19th century couldn't have imagined that 40 years later, their continent would be crisscrossed by a railroad linking Eastern ports to Western markets.
不同于福尔摩斯，这位天下第一侦探—罗苹，以绅士怪盗这个极为不同的造型，成为纵横20世纪小说界和影坛受欢迎的人物。
In contrast to Sherlock Holmes, the ultimate detective, Lupin was an extreme version of the gentleman criminal, a popular character in fiction and film throughout the 20th century.
问题在于，你要是想理解“大书”中的预言，就必须像17世纪疯疯癫癫的高智商女巫那样思考。这种人的脑袋就跟填字游戏那样纵横交错的混乱不堪。
The trouble was that in order to understand the Predictions you had to be able to think like a half crazed, highly intelligent seventeenth century witch with a mind like a crossword puzzle dictionary.
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