家里日益贫困的生活迫使狄更斯在12岁时辍学,在沃伦的鞋油仓库工作。这是一家鞋油厂,那里工作的男孩嘲笑他是“年轻的绅士”。
The family's increasing poverty forced Dickens out of school at age 12 to work in Warren's Blacking Warehouse, a shoe-polish factory, where the other working boys mocked him as "the young gentleman".
在20世纪初,一位名叫约翰·埃尔弗雷斯·沃特金斯的美国工程师对今天的生活进行了预测。
At the start of the 20th century, an American engineer named John Elfreth Watkins made predictions about life today.
《大英百科全书》第25卷934页第2栏中写到,欧洲野牛仅在波兰比亚沃维耶扎森林生活,这一点也是错误的。
In volume 25, page 934, column 2, the encyclopaedia states that the European bison, or wisent, may be found only in the Bialowieza Forest in Poland, which is also incorrect.
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