"My dear Middleton, " - Gilbert affected the use of surnames even for his most intimate friends, - "don't, for heaven's sake, be the prize ass of all time. Can't you see it's the greatest thing that's ever happened?" "我親愛的米德爾頓先生，"－吉爾伯特即便是對最要好的朋友也老愛用姓來稱呼－"看在老天的份上，別一直做天下頭號大傻瓜了。你難道就沒發現這是有世以來最了不起的事情嗎？"
He was deeply upset by the death of his mother, but he will gradually get over it. After all time is the healer. 他母親的去世使他極為悲傷，不過他慢慢會心情好起來的，時間畢竟是最好的醫生。
Is, as Mr. Nixon said, our prestige at an all time high? 是否如尼克松先生所說，我們的聲望正前所未有的高？
Mozart was, after all, not a mere purveyor of music but one of the supreme dramatic geniuses of all time. 莫扎特畢竟不僅是作曲家，而且是空前的最大戲劇天才之一。
