Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner , how frequent their misunderstandings , how eager they are to kill one another , how fervent their hatreds 想一下:在這個像元的角落,有些人把極端殘暴的行為加諸于住在同一微塵上的其他居民身上,他們一而在,再而三的為了彼此的誤解,憎恨變得深到一心一意想去毀滅他人。
That was flint s treasure that we bad come so far to seek , and that had cost already the lives of seventeen men from the hispaniola . how many it had cost in the amassing , what blood and sorrow , what good ships scuttled on the deep , what brave men walking the plank blindfold , what shot of cannon , what shame and lies and cruelty , perhaps no man alive could tell 這些財寶聚集了多少人的血和淚,多少艘大船沉入海底,多少勇敢的人被逼著蒙住眼睛走在伸出船外的板子上,然后一頭栽進海水里,多少次戰火硝煙,多少恥辱欺詐和殘暴的行為,恐怕沒有一個活著的人能夠講清楚。