Dreaming, perhaps, of banquets, as the starved usually do, and of ease and rest, as the driven slave and the yoked ox may, its lean inhabitants slept soundly, and were fed and freed.

• 枯瘦的村民也许梦见了饥饿者常梦见的筵席，也许梦见了被驱赶干活的奴隶和牛马常梦见的轻松和休息。 总之睡得很香，在梦里吃得很饱，而且自由自在。