一阵长时间的大笑，笑得风狂雨骤，痛快淋漓，不过最后终于停了下来--这停下来的时间长得刚好让伯杰斯先生准备继续发言，长得让大家能擦掉笑出来的眼泪；

• It was a good long laugh, and a tempestuously wholehearted one, but it ceased at last--long enough for Mr. Burgess to try to resume, and for the people to get their eyes partially wiped;