Bleak House

The case of Gridley is in no essential altered from one of actual occurrence, made public by a disinterested person who was professionally acquainted with the whole of the monstrous wrong from beginning to end.

格里德利的案例在本质上并未改变，它来自一个真实发生过的事件，由一个与整个巨大错误从开始到结束都有专业了解的公正人士公开。

At the present moment (August, 1853) there is a suit before the court which was commenced nearly twenty years ago, in which from thirty to forty counsel have been known to appear at one time, in which costs have been incurred to the amount of seventy thousand pounds, which is A FRIENDLY SUIT, and which is (I am assured) no nearer to its termination now than when it was begun.

目前（1853年8月），有一个案件正在进行，这个案件几乎二十年前就开始了，在这个案件中，曾经有三十到四十位律师同时出现，花费达到了七万英镑，这是一个‘友好诉讼’，而且（我确信）它现在距离结束并不比开始时更近。