论谋杀(英汉对照)

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• Ah, reader! when I look back upon those days, it seems to me that all things change or perish. Even thunder and lightning, it pains me to say, are not the thunder and lightning which I seem to remember about the time of Waterloo. Roses, I fear, are degeneraing, and, without a Red revolution, must come to the dust. The Fannies of our island–though this I say with reluctance–are not improving; and the Bath road is notoriously superannuated. Mr. Waterton tells me that the crocodile does not change–that a cayman, in fact, or an alligator, is just as good for riding upon as he was in the time of the Pharadohs. That may be; but the reason is, that the crocodile does not live fast–he is a slow coach. I believe it is generally understood amongst naturalists, that the crocodile is a blockhead. It ... (查看原文)

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