The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems

He died on the evening of May 30, so quietly that his friends hardly knew that the end had come.

他在5月30日的夜晚悄然离世，朋友们几乎未曾察觉这一刻的到来。

He plotted and quibbled not so much to injure others as to protect himself.

他谋划推脱，与其说是为了伤害他人，不如说是为了保护自己。