He has been caught—one might almost say—in the act of smuggling firearms into the Legation.

他被场抓获——几乎可以么说——将枪支走私进入公使馆的过程中。

Of course the story's all over the Legation by now.

，个故事现已经传遍了整个公使馆。

To him, the Legation was social ostracism, terrible beyond anything he had known.

对他来说，公使馆是一种社会排斥， 比他所知道的任何事物都可怕。

The members of the modest Legation in Portland Place accepted it as Grant had accepted the capitulation of Vicksburg.

波特兰广场谦虚的公使馆成员接受了它，就像格兰特接受了维克斯堡的投降一样。

In the Legation, as private secretary, he was liable to do Secretary's work.

公使馆，作为私人秘书， 他负责代办秘书的工作。

The geological champion of Darwin was Sir Charles Lyell, and the Lyells were intimate at the Legation.

达尔文的地质冠军是查尔斯·莱尔爵士，莱尔夫妇公使馆很亲密。

He also moved the U.S. Ministry to the Hotel Le Grand Batelier and dined with the widowed Mrs. Barlow and her family.

他还把美国公使馆迁到了大巴特利埃酒店，并与丧偶的巴洛夫人和她的家人共进晚餐。

He was Lawrence Oliphant, just from Japan, where he had been wounded in the fanatics' attack on the British Legation.

他是劳伦斯·奥利芬特， 刚从日本来， 狂热分子袭击英国公使馆时负伤。

In truth, the Legation knew, then, all that was to be known, and the true fault of education was to suspect too much.

事实上，时公使馆知道该知道的一切，教育的真正错误于怀疑太多。

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，一位疯狂爱上她的公使馆秘书试图切断他的喉咙， 她创办了一个院！

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二流公使馆而经过伦敦， 后他再次漂流回家， 加入论坛报的怀特劳·里德 (Whitelaw Reid) 和乔治·斯莫利 (George Smalley)。

At that moment — the early summer of 1863 — the rebel party in England were full of confidence, and felt strong enough to challenge the American Legation to a show of power.

那一刻——1863年初夏——英国的造反党信心满满，觉得有足够的实力向美国公使馆发起挑战，以示威武。

Within the narrow limits of this class, the American Legation was fairly at home; possibly a score of houses, all liberal, and all literary, but perfect only in the eyes of a Harvard College historian.

个阶级的狭窄范围内，美国公使馆相自。可能有二十所房子，全是自由主义的，全是文学的，但只有哈佛大学历史学家眼中才是完美的。

Being three thousand miles away from his mother, and equally far in love, he married Louisa in London, July 26, 1797, and took her to Berlin to be the head of the United States Legation.

1797 年 7 月 26 日，他与母亲相距 3000 英里，但对他的爱同样遥远，他伦敦与路易莎结婚，并带她去柏林担任美国公使馆馆长。

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.

传教士和商人外省被谋杀； 外国公使馆被扔石头；德国大使，最受鄙视的外国人之一， 北京街头被杀；从表面上看， 一场可怕的灭绝战争已经开始。

Had his efforts for intervention in September, 1862, been known to the Legation in September, 1863 the Minister must surely have admitted that Russell had, from the first, meant to force his plan of intervention on his colleagues.

如果他 1862 年 9 月的干预努力 1863 年 9 月被公使馆知晓， 那么位部长肯定已经承认罗素从一开始就打算将他的干预计划强加于他的同事。

The sense of solidarity counts for much in one's contentment, but the sense of winning one's game counts for more; and in London, in 1898, the scene was singularly interesting to the last survivor of the Legation of 1861.

团结感对一个人的满足感很重要，但赢得比赛的感觉更重要； 1898 年伦敦，1861 年公使馆的最后一位幸存者对一场景格外感兴趣。

This letter, quite in the line of Palmerston's supposed opinions, would have surprised no one, if it had been communicated to the Legation; and indeed, if Lee had captured Washington, no one could have blamed Palmerston for offering intervention.

封信完全符合帕默斯顿假定的观点，如果它被转达给公使馆，没有人会感到惊讶。事实上，如果李占领了华盛顿，就没有人会责怪帕默斯顿提供干预。

At the Legation, Motley ruled; the long Adams reign was forgotten; the rebellion had passed into history. In society no one cared to recall the years before the Prince of Wales. The smart set had come to their own.

公使馆，莫特利统治着；亚斯的长期统治被遗忘了；叛乱已经成为历史。社会上，没有人愿意回忆威尔士亲王之前的岁月。聪明的人已经来了。

At the time, the question was hardly raised, for no one doubted Palmerston's attitude or his plans. The season was near its end, and Cambridge House was soon closed. The Legation had troubles enough without caring to publish more.

时几乎没有人提出个问题，因为没有人怀疑帕默斯顿的态度和计划。赛季接近尾声，剑桥之家很快关闭。公使馆已经有够多的麻烦了，无心发表更多。