To be always running three or four thousand miles with a tale or a petition, waiting four or five months for an answer, which, when obtained, requires five or six more to explain it in, will in a few years be looked upon as folly and childishness.

• 为了一件事情或一项申请要经常奔波三四千英里，为了答复要等待四五个月，而得到批覆以后，又需要五六个月来加以解释，这种情况不出几年功夫就会被看作是荒唐和幼稚的行径。