The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
Mr and Mrs Smith were singers, and they travelled a lot. Whenever they went by plane, people searched them and their luggage, of course.
史密斯夫妇是歌唱家，他们经常旅行。每次他们乘飞机旅行时，人们当然检查他们和他们的行李。
I was spending the month of March 1892 at Mentone, in the Riviera. At this retired spot one has all the advantages, privately, which are to be had publicly at Monte Carlo and Nice, a few miles farther along.
“Yes, please, Miss,” Dick said. “Why do men wear black in this country when they marry, Miss?”
“是的，请问，老师，”迪克说。“在我国，男人结婚的时候，为什么穿黑衣服呢，老师？”
It was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation unsmirched during three generations, and was prouder of it than of any other of its possessions.
Nat lay on the ground for a few seconds and then he sat up and said, “Where am I?”
纳特在地上躺了几秒钟，然后坐起来说：“我这是在哪儿呀？”
My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me; I do not know these nice distinctions myself.
“She’s a nasty one,” he said angrily. “Don’t talk to her.”
“她是个险恶的姑娘，”他生气地说。“别跟她说话。”
Night before last I had a singular dream. I seemed to be sitting on a doorstep (in no particular city perhaps) ruminating, and the time of night appeared to be about twelve or one o'clock.
Then his captain heard about this, and one day he brought him a watch too and said, “My watch has stopped. Can you mend it for me, please?”
后来他的上尉听说了这件事，有一天，他也给他拿来了一块手表，说：“我的手表停了。请给我修一下，好吗？”
The small locomotive engine, Number 4, came clanking, stumbling down from Selston--with seven full waggons. It appeared round the corner with loud threats of speed, but the colt that it startled from among the gorse, which still flickered indistinctly in the raw afternoon, outdistanced it at a canter.
“Oh,” she said, “you have played before, have you?”
“哦，”她说，“你打过，对吗？”
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