第二天，这片土地的主人杰弗里·纽曼爵士来带我去参观灯塔时，我便想起了这一点。
I was reminded of this the next day when local landowner Sir Geoffrey Newman arrived to give me a tour of the lighthouse.
到八世纪早期，帝国已经失去了大约三分之二的领土，其拥有了600年的剩余土地正在遭受阿拉伯人和保加利亚人的袭击。
By the early eighth century, the empire had lost roughly two-thirds of the territory it had possessed in the year 600, and its remaining area was being raided by Arabs and Bulgarians.
第二天早上，我吃早餐时无精打采地看着报纸，看到了这段话：1863年，于瓦卡瓦克，34人控告州长候选人马克吐温先生作伪证。他打算掠夺一个贫穷女人的土地，她丈夫死后，这块地是她唯一的容身之所和支撑。
The next morning, as I was looking listlessly over the papers at breakfast, I came across this paragraph: PERJURY—Mr. Mark Twain, a candidate for Governor, was convicted of perjury by thirty-four people, in Wakawak, in 1863. He intended to rob a poor woman of her land, her only stay and support after her husband died.
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