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For eighteen months, without intermission, this destruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore,
在沒有中斷的十八個月里，這場浩劫從馬德拉斯的大門口一直肆虐到丹柔里的大門口，
and so completely did these masters in their art, Hyder Ali, and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow,
而這些老爺們悠游自在，全然不理。海德·阿里和他那更為兇殘的兒子，以他們毫無虔誠可言的誓言為自己開脫，
that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic, for hundreds of miles in all directions,
當英國軍隊行至此地時，卡那提克方圓數百英里
through the whole line of their march they did not see one man — not one woman — not one child — not one four-footed beast of any description whatever!
竟然不見一個男人——不見一個婦人——不見一個孩子——連四條腿的野獸都不見蹤影！
One dead, uniform silence reigned over the whole region.
一個人死了，整個卡那提克都要舉哀。
With the inconsiderable exceptions of the narrow vicinage of some few forts, I wish to be understood as speaking literally;
幾個城堡附近狹窄的區域，也有無足輕重的例外。我希望我的這一說法能被理解為如實描述；
I mean to produce to you more than three witnesses, who will support this assertion in its full extent.
重要的是要有三位以上的目擊者，他們所觀察到的能為這一斷言提供佐證。
That hurricane of war passed through every part of the central provinces of the Carnatic.
戰爭颶風席卷卡那提克中央地區的每個角落。
Six or seven districts to the north and to the south (and these not wholly untouched) escaped the general ravage.
北面和南面有六七個地區（這些并非全都遠不可及）逃脫了這場范圍很廣的破壞。
