狄更斯《老古玩店》:
When was it, that I first began?When should it be, but when I began to think how little I had saved, how long a time it took to save at all, how short a time I might have at my age to live,and how she would be left to the rough mercies of the world, with barely enough to keep her from the sorrows that wait on poverty; then it was that I began to think about it.
我在什么时候第一次开始?什么时候,就是我开始想到我的积蓄多么少,多么长的时间才存了那点钱,而我的年纪大了,没有多少时候好活了,我怎能把她留在残酷无情的世界上,不能使她避免随穷困一齐到来的苦恼?于是我便开始想到这种事情上去。