在他看来，即使“古老世家”（使用近来故去的一个本地名人的字眼儿）也没有了香味，除非它的后人能有新的良好变化。
Even the 'good old family' (to use a favourite phrase of a late local worthy) had no aroma for him unless there were good new resolutions in its representatives.
近来，这座城市的爱书人觉得店内的手冲咖啡和高速无线网络，会破坏伦敦几个世纪以来这种隔离喧嚣、翻阅书籍的古老传统。
Until recently, the trend for barista-made coffee and high-speed Wi-Fi was considered by some in the city's bookish crowd to be ruining London's centuries-old tradition of disconnected browsing.
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