Because in middle youth he had often sat observing through a rondel of bossed glass of a multicoloured pane the spectacle offered with continual changes of the thoroughfare without , pedestrians , quadrupeds , velocipedes , vehicles , passing slowly , quickly , evenly , round and round and round the rim of a round precipitous globe 因为他在青壮年时，经常坐在屋里，隔着那嵌有浮凸饰的五彩圆玻璃窗子，观察外界大街上千变万化的景物：步行者四足动物脚踏车车辆，或急匆匆或慢悠悠或不紧不慢地经过，沿着垂直的圆球面的边缘滴溜溜滴溜溜滴溜溜地旋转。
