With a jolt, he realized that while the Science Museum correspondence confirmed that Plummer had rejected a wax recording, he had acquired the Morses' solitary example of a Graphophone cylinder.

大惊之下，他意识到，虽然科学博物馆的信件证实布拉默拒绝了一个蜡质圆筒，却收下了莫尔斯家那个唯一的留声机圆筒。

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And there is no clearer manifestation of this than our routine use of solitary confinement on our own people, in our own communities, in a supermax prison, for example, that is a thirty-minute drive from my door.

NEWYORKER: Hellhole