In 1848, the Metropolitan Police ordered 10,000 truncheons to put down peaceful protests.

1848 年，伦敦察厅订购了 1 万个棍。

It was the demand for truncheons that led to the first spike in prices.

正是对棍需求导致了价格首次飙升。

Even the trowel and the truncheon couldn't control her.

甚至泥刀和棍都控制不住她。

So the truncheon marched off Mr. Grimes, looking as meek as a drowned worm.

于是，棍从格莱姆斯先生身边走开，看一条溺水蠕虫一样温顺。

And there the truncheon knocked twice, with its own head.

在那里，棍用自己头敲了两下。

" Take him away, " said she to the truncheon, " and give him his ticket-of-leave" .

“他带走，”她对棍说，“休假票给他。”

It blew Victorian minds and within a decade they were casting the latex into ear trumpets, shoe soles, golf balls and truncheons.

它让维多利亚时代人们大为震惊，不到十年，人们就这种乳胶制成了耳喇叭、鞋底、高尔夫球和棍。

And there he walked along the leads, till he met another truncheon, and told him his errand.

他沿着线索走在那里，直到他遇到另一个棍，并告诉他他差事。

" Here, my man, out you go on the roof to make one less, and have your truncheon handy" .

“在这里， 伙计，到屋顶上去少做一个， 棍放在手边” 。

" Attention, Mr. Grimes, " said the truncheon; " here is a gentleman come to see you" .

“注意，格兰姆斯先生，”棍说。 “有一位先生看”。

Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.

这个地方，除非因公，是无法进入，而且进去也要通过重重铁丝网、铁门、隐蔽机枪阵地。

" It's no use, " said the truncheon, leaning itself up against the chimney and looking on.

“没用，” 棍说，靠在烟囱上看着。

A ship beating to windward on the horizon, and a huge truncheon of wreck half buried in the sands at my feet, completed the innuendo of the scene.

一艘在地平线上迎风拍打船，以及半埋在我脚下沙子里巨大沉船棍，完成了对场景暗示。

Up jumped the truncheon, and was going to hit him on the crown a tremendous thump, and drive him down again like a cork into a bottle.

棍跳了， 正要重重地砸在他头顶上， 然后他软木塞塞进瓶子里一样再次击倒。

" No, " interposed the truncheon; " he has come to the place where everybody must help themselves; and he will find it out, I hope, before he has done with me" .

“不，”棍插话道。 “他已经到了每个人都必须自助地步；我希望，在他对我下手之前，他会发现。”

The truncheon leant back against the chimney, and took no notice of the personal insult, like a well-trained policeman as it was, though he was ready enough to avenge any transgression against morality or order.

棍靠在烟囱上，对这种人身侮辱毫不在意，就一个训练有素察，尽管他已经准备好对任何违反道德或秩序行为进行报复。

Tom looked up at the enormous wall, which seemed at least ninety miles high, and wondered how he should ever get up: but, when he hinted that to the truncheon, it settled the matter in a moment.

汤姆抬头看着那堵似乎至少有九十英里高巨墙，想知道他应该怎么站：但是，当他向棍暗示这一点时，事情马上就解决了。

" Keep a civil tongue, and attend" ! said the truncheon; and popped up just like Punch, hitting Grimes such a crack over the head with itself, that his brains rattled inside like a dried walnut in its shell.

“保持礼貌，出席”！棍说；然后 Punch 一样突然出现，在 Grimes 头上打了一个裂缝，以至于他大脑壳里干核桃一样在里面嘎嘎作响。