Missionaries and traders were murdered in the provinces;foreign legations were stoned;the German ambassador, one of the most cordially despised foreigners, was killed in the streets of Peking; and to all appearances a frightful war of extermination had begun.

传教士和商人在外省被谋杀； 外使馆被扔石头；德大使，最受鄙视外人之一， 在北京街头被杀；从表面上看， 一场可怕灭绝战争已经开始。

John Hay passed through London in order to bury himself in second-rate Legations for years, before he drifted home again to join Whitelaw Reid and George Smalley on the Tribune.

约翰·海 (John Hay) 多年来为了将自己埋葬在二流使馆而经过伦敦， 然后他再次漂流回家， 加入论坛报怀特劳·里德 (Whitelaw Reid) 和乔治·斯莫利 (George Smalley)。

Once, after a secretary of legation, who was madly in love with her, had attempted to cut his throat, she founded a small alms-house!

有一次，一位疯狂爱上使馆秘书试图切断他喉咙， 创办了一个小济贫院！

The interference of the German and Russian legations, and of the Clan-na-Gael, with the press and the Senate was innocently undisguised.

德和俄罗斯使馆以及 Clan-na-Gael 对新闻界和参议院干涉是天真无伪。