20.In 1926 the last confirmed case of the sleepers' disorder was reported in Cape Town.
睡眠者障碍的最后一个确诊案例(见)报于1926年的开普敦。
within the circle of Dr. Delambre
在德尔布朗医生的圈子内(被称作)
and the name that finally stuck,Encephalitis Lethargica.
最后定下的名字,埃科诺莫氏病(昏睡性脑炎)
E.Lethe
上面Encephalitis Lethargica的缩写
21....the influenza pandemic that followed on hard and killed twenty million
其后又无情夺去两千万生命的流感
what were a quiet few, fading away?
大意是:(跟前面两样相比)哪些才算默默逝去的呢?
....an Allied invasion of Siberia to put down the filthy Bolsheviks, and it was entirely forgotten.
一场旨在推翻下流的布尔什维克党而对西伯利亚的联合侵略,也被彻底遗忘了。
...and no one in those days organized in their interest.
那些日子里面,也没有人为他们的利益而形成组织
...Dopamine drugs were decades away...
多巴胺是几十年后(discovered in 1952)的事情了
...what had briefly been...a mysterious visitation(天罚,a disaster that is belived to be a punishment from God, -Oxford Advanced)...,became...
曾经短暂成为...最后成为了...
22.Photoplay
《电影故事》
It must have sounded like a natural:Brooks in bed for four reels. Who would have expected her to sleep he whole time
这听起来很白痴:Brooks整整四卷胶卷都在床上。谁会想到她整部戏都在睡觉?
on that picture
那部电影里
"他的朋友们把他吊死在大庭广众之下,死去的时候眼睛是睁开的"
太惊悚了,比喻说法
if anybody but Arbuckle had made it
如果让随便哪个不是Arbuckle的人拍这部电影
23....had intended to wait for a year or two, putting money by, before starting a family...
先打算积点钱再要孩子
24.健谈不过衰落的很严重
堕落
25.It was said,though not closer than Serecombe, that Burgess had a devil, or the Devil, in the basement of Fawney Rig
据流传,虽然范围不出Serecombe,Burgess在Fawney Rig 的地下室有一只恶魔,或者是魔鬼本人。
26.不过三位主妇团结成反抗所有的专制的前线
指三位主妇团结反抗男人专制,个人理解
27.at some length the man said
过了一会那人说
28.In 1933, the man who had designed the fastest aircraft on earth went to visit Germany.
1933年,设计出最快飞机的人去了德国。
The design he had been working on was flying, awkwardly, by the end of the year.
直到年底,他的设计还只能笨拙地飞行。
29.Peter Himmels 比她sister小,叫姐姐比较礼貌
30.Peter向他的妹妹走去搂住她的腰部。
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