No man could guess what the Daimler motor and X-rays would do to him; but so much was sure; the monkey and motor were terribly afraid of the bear; how much, — only a man close to their foreign departments knew.

没有人能猜到戴姆勒汽车和 X 光会对他造成什么影响；但有很多事情是肯定的；猴子和马达非常害怕熊。有多少——只有与他们外交部关系密切的人知道。