After a pause, I said: " Your big towns, now; how about them? London, which — which I have read about as the modern Babylon of civilization, seems to have disappeared" .

停顿了一下， 我说：“你的大城镇， 现在； 它们怎么样？伦敦，我读到的作为文明的现代巴比伦的伦敦， 似乎已经消失了” 。