Behold, here was a dead wall, and nothing in English history to tell how to get over it.

哎呀，他们碰壁了，英国历史上没有任何记载帮助他们如何度过这一关。

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There was also, running the length of the left wall, a giant waist-high cement trough filled with water and dead mosquitoes.

还有一个和左墙一样长、齐腰高的水泥水槽，里面装满了水和死蚊子。

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With a last weak "cri-cri-cri", the poor Cricket fell from the wall, dead!

可怜的蟋蟀发出最后一声微弱的 “唧——唧——唧” 的叫声，从墙上摔了下来，死了！

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A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the burning roof and tower And Agamemnon dead.

腰肢的猛一颤动,残破的墙垣，燃烧的屋顶和塔巅,阿伽门农死去。

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