The Scarlet Pimpernel

The carnage had only ceased at this late hour of the day because there were other more interesting sights for the people to witness, a little while before the final closing of the barricades for the night.

只有在这个日落前不久，屠杀才停止，因为人们想目睹一些更有趣的事情，就在关闭路障过夜之前的一会儿。

Every aristocrat was a traitor, as his ancestors had been before him: for two hundred years now the people had sweated, and toiled, and starved, to keep a lustful court in lavish extravagance.

每一个贵族都是叛徒，就像他的祖先一样：两百年来，人民辛勤劳动，忍饥挨饿，只是为了维持一个奢侈的宫廷的挥霍无度。