这位神龙见首不见尾的调情者是华盛顿报的一个记者，有时候他又是来自纽约的范某某先生。

This going-away masher is a Washington newspaper correspondent, and sometimes he is a Van Something from New York.

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确实，他是个幸运的人，范老师现在说，他从来没有结过婚，所以也没有人会来把他说成一个不忠的丈夫和坏父亲。

Indeed, he was a lucky man, Teacher Fei said now; he had never married, so no one could accuse him of being an unfaithful husband or a bad father.

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但是他的最大贡献，是证明了范迪门斯地并不与澳洲大陆接壤，而是通过一个一个宽阔的海峡与之隔海相望，这个海峡日后被恰当地命名为“巴斯海峡”。

His greatest service, however, was the proof that Van Diemen's Land is not joined to Australia, but is divided from it by the wide strait to which Bass's name is now so justly given.

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