To crown all, there was to be a donkey-race—that sublimest of all races, conducted on the grand socialistic idea of everybody encouraging everybody else's donkey, and the sorriest donkey winning.

最重要的是，有一场驴赛跑——这是所有比赛中最崇高的比赛，它是根据每个人都鼓励其他人的驴子，而最遗憾的驴子获胜的宏伟社会主义理念进行的。