Tonga--for that was his name--was a fine boatman and owned a big, roomy canoe of his own.

他的字叫做童格，是一个精练的船夫，并且有一只很大的独木船。

Let's start with the prince of pithy statements, the Cheshire Cat.

让我们从精练语句的王子——柴郡猫开始。

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Having authentic and polished oral English is every learner's dream.

上好，女士们先生们。拥有地道而精练的英语口语是每个学习者的梦想。

First, Hemingway never said it – it's actually a pithy re-phrasing of a passage from a novel called Reuben, Reuben by Peter De Vries.

首先，海明威从来没有过这句话——这实际上是对彼得·德·弗里斯的《本》中一段话的精练改写。

When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

亚伯兰听见他侄儿（原文作" 弟兄" ）被掳去，就率领他家里生养的精练壮丁三百一十八人，直追到但。