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It was strong, acute, prompt, splendid, and vociferous; as loud, stormy, and sublime as those winds which he represents as shaking the Hebrides,
這種談話是強烈的、尖銳的、迅速的，壯麗的和大喊大叫的；像能動搖赫布里底群島
and rocking the old castle which frowned on the dark-rolling sea beneath.
和將古老的城堡夷為平地的狂風暴雨那樣聲勢浩大和令人贊嘆。
But one gets tired of storms, however sublime they may be, and longs for the more orderly current of nature.
但是，盡管令人贊嘆，人們還是厭煩了狂風暴雨，更渴望的是被普遍接受的天性的流露。
Of Franklin, no one ever became tired. There was no ambition of eloquence, no effort to shine in anything which came from him.
對富蘭克林，沒有誰曾厭煩過。他的話語里沒有流露出展開雄辯的抱負，沒有對自己說的任何話進行粉飾的企圖，
There was nothing which made any demand upon either your allegiance or your admiration.
也沒有強求得到你的擁護或贊賞。
His manner was as unaffected as infancy. It was nature's self. He talked like an old patriarch,
他的舉止儀態像嬰兒一樣不受外界的影響，這就是天性的流露。他說話時就像一位年長的家長，
and his plainness and simplicity put you at once at your ease, and gave you the full and free possession and use of your faculties.
話語的平易和簡潔令你馬上就感到非常舒服，給你完全和自由的自主權，你可以充分運用自己的表達能力。
His thoughts were of a character to shine by their own light, without any adventitious aid.
他的思想有一種閃耀自身光輝的特質，不必借助于任何外來的東西。
They only required a medium of vision like his pure and simple style, to exhibit to the highest advantage their native radiance and beauty.
像他話語純粹和簡樸的風格一樣，這些思想只需要視覺這個媒介，展現出這些思想天然的光輝和美的最高層次的有利因素。
