the food simply local cheese accompanied by bread often twelve months old, all washed down with coarse wine.

食物是当地的干酪和通常存放了一年之久的面包，人们就着劣酒吞下这种食物。

Even more processes are never patented at all but kept as secret processes.

更多的工艺过程根本就不会取得专利权，而是作为秘方保存着。

with the caption 'She was yet another victim, reduced to a screaming wreck '.

她是又一个受害者，成了只会尖叫的可怜虫。"

probably vertical, cliffs, and gentle sediment-covered terraces,

乃至垂直的峭壁和沉积物覆盖的缓和的阶梯地带，

For our purposes, we are concerned only with one kind of cost----

就我们的目的而言，我们只关心一种费用-

a ticklish business which is achieved with the aid of two tame elephants roped to the captive on either side.

这是一件棘手的事，需要在它两侧拴上两头驯服的大象才能完成。