and that if only the common peoples of the would could meet one another at football or cricket, they would have no inclination to meet on the hattlefield.

还说各国民众若在足球场或板球场上交锋，就不愿在战场上残杀的时候，我总是惊愕不已。

and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls.

接着热情奔放地冲过巨石，飞下瀑布。

and if he found it necessary to shoot a sheriff or rob a bank along the way,

如果他认为在进行过程中有必要枪击一个司法官或抢劫一个银行，

when the whole animal is sometimes preserved, as in a refrigerator.

有时整个动物像被放在冰箱里一样被保存下来，

If a nation is essentially disunited, it is left to the government to hold it together.

如果一个国家实际上处于分裂状态，使之联合起来就是政府的事了。

I never heard of anyone making a'skeleton', as we were taught at school.

我从未听说过任何一位作家像我们在学校学的那样，动笔前先列什么提纲。