During the first days of the fires, the city authorities had only granted permission  to blow up buildings that were in immediate contact with the ones already alight.

在火灾发生的最初几天，市政府只允许炸毁与已经着火的建筑物直接接触的建筑物。

To realise them one must have been condemned to pass months on end without an instant's solitude, and in immediate contact with comrades who were at the best importunate, and for the most part insupportable.

要实现这些目标， 一个人必须被迫连续几个月没有片刻的孤独， 并与充其量是最好的纠缠不清的同志直接接触， 并且在大多数情况下是无法忍受的。