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Charlotte Bronte(\"e), Jane Eyre:

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question.

那天不可能出去散步了，早上還在衰頹的灌木林裡閒逛了一個鐘頭，晚飯沒客人來李德太太總是吃得早，飯後冬天的寒風帶來陰沉沉的烏雲和密匝匝的暴雨，想都別想出去走走了。
(董橋, 坐夏)


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Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

單身男子，家業豐裕，必想娶妻，實情如此，天下公認。 (董橋, 坐夏)

凡單身男子，家業豐裕則必想娶妻，實情如此，天下公認。