Notes and Queries, Number 70, March 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

The formation of hail is an effect of which electricity is the cause, and the cloud being deprived of this agent by the conductors, descends in the shape of rain.

冰雹的形成是电的作用所致，而云层通过导体失去这种能量后，便以雨的形式降下。

This point of difference betwixt the two churches must necessarily have been the subject of much dispute.

两教之间的这一分歧必然成为众多争论的主题。