" You hear nothing of them, or only by chance afterwards, " Joachim says of patients who succumb. " Everything is kept strictly private."

“你不会听说过他们，或者只是事后偶然会听说。”阿希姆谈到死亡的病人时说，“一切都要严格保密。”

" Not if it had been like Casaubon, " said Sir James, conscious of some indirectness in his answer, and of holding a strictly private opinion as to the perfections of his first-born.

“要是像卡苏朋那样就不会了，”詹姆斯爵士说，他意识到自己的回答有些含糊，而且对他长子的完美程度持有严格的私人意见。