Lily's blood tingled with the grossness of the rebuff.

粗鲁的拒绝使丽莉的血液沸腾起来。

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“We must remember that grossness and indecency…are matters of time and place,” wrote Mr Burton in his introduction, a year before he was knighted. “What is offensive in England is not so in Egypt.”

“要知道，所谓的粗鄙与下流，也要分具体的时间和地点，”伯顿在书的前言里如是写道，“在英国不被接受的东西在埃及却并非如此”。

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“We must remember that grossness and indecency…are matters of time and place,” wrote Mr Burton in his introduction, a year before he was knighted. “What is offensive in England is not so in Egypt.”

“要知道，所谓的粗鄙与下流，也要分具体的时间和地点，”伯顿在书的前言里如是写道，“在英国不被接受的东西在埃及却并非如此”。

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