29 And then they took all the wives and children captive and ransacked their homes for anything valuable.

29 又把他们一切货财、孩子、妇女，并各房中所有的，都掳掠去了。

It seemed as if their editors had ransacked their drawers for articles which would have been in place forty years before, under the technical name of educational articles.

似乎他们的编辑翻遍了他们的抽屉， 寻找四十年前就已经存在的文章， 这些文章被称为教育文章。

It was also said that the town had been ransacked for this " murderer" (the public are not slow in the matter of sifting evidence and arriving at a verdict), but that he could not be found.

还有人说，该镇曾因这个“凶手”而被洗劫一空（公众在筛选证据和做出判决方面并不慢），但找不到他。

Mary, while every external means of investigation was working at its highest pressure, had ransacked her husband's papers for any trace of antecedent complications, of entanglements or obligations unknown to her, that might throw a faint ray into the darkness.

玛丽，当每一种外部调查手段都在最大压力下工作时，她搜查了她丈夫的文件，寻找任何她不知道的先前复杂情况、纠缠或义务的痕迹，这些可能会在黑暗中投射出微弱的光芒。