" If only we were still in the days of lettres de cachet" !

“要是我们还处在信封时代就好了” ！

We had plenty of our own — trees loaded with them; but some one had told you that stolen fruit tasted sweetest, which you took au pied de la lettre, and off you went a-robbing.

我们有很多自己的——树上挂满了它们； 但是有人告诉你， 偷来的水果尝起来最甜， 你拿走了 au pied de la letter， 然后就开始抢劫了。

In his early days he had devoted himself with fond enthusiasm to the agreeable study of biology, and a brief monograph on the Embryology of the Microscopic Holothuria had formed his first contribution to the belles lettres.

早年，他以狂热的热情投身于令人愉快的生物学研究，一部关于显微海参胚胎学的简短专着构成了他对文学作品的第一篇贡献。