Once, on returning to London, dining with Stopford Brooke, some one asked Adams what impression the Royal Academy Exhibition made on him.

有一次，在回到伦敦与斯托普福德·布鲁克共进晚餐时， 有人问亚当斯， 皇家学院展览给他留下了什么印象。

With a little hesitation, he suggested that it was rather a chaos, which he meant for civility; but Stopford Brooke abruptly met it by asking whether chaos were not better than death.

略带犹豫，他暗示这是相当混乱， 他的意思是礼貌； 但是斯托普福德·布鲁克问混乱是否比死亡更好， 从而突然遇到了这个问题。

On the other hand, as a third member of this critical group, he fell in with Stopford Brooke whose tastes lay in the same direction, and whose expression was modified by clerical propriety.

另一方面，作为这个批评团体的第三个成员，他遇到了斯托普福德·布鲁克，他们的品味在同一方向，而且他们的表情因牧师的礼仪而有所改变。