But Phileas Fogg, who was not travelling, but only describing a circumference, took no pains to inquire into these subjects;he was a solid body, traversing an orbit around the terrestrial globe, according to the laws of rational mechanics.
假如福克先生向他请教的话,柯罗马蒂会乐意把有关印度的历史、风俗人情和社会组织的情况告诉他的;可惜福克先生什么都不打听,因为他不是来旅行的,他只是要在地球上兜一个圈儿。