来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国革命 第3集 第3集》

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  was their making a merit of the stoniness of the roads."
  他们对石子路大加称赞
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  As one put it:"One may ride ...
  其中一人原话是
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  fifty miles in Maryland and not see as many stones
  恐怕驾车在马里兰行驶了五十英里
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  upon the roads as fifty paces of roads in Pennsylvania."
  遇到的石子也难及在宾夕法尼亚步行五十步多
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  This I knew to be false,
  我知道这不可能
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  but as I thought there was no advantage in stony roads,
  但同时我又想到石子路有什么好的
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  I...let them take the honour of it to themselves,
  于是同意让他们独占这一殊荣
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  and did not contradict them."
  没有辩解"
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  Now to me, one of the interesting things about this anecdote:
  我觉得这个故事有意思的地方在于
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  It makes me think about almost a century later
  它使我联想到了一个世纪之后
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  when we're talking about de Tocqueville,
  那个年代的托克维尔
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  and he's wandering around America
  他走遍美国