The Centre of the Cell

In the centre of the cell, in a circle traced with a fragment of plaster detached from the wall, sat a man whose tattered garments scarcely covered him.

在这个地牢的中央，有一个用从墙壁上挖下来的石灰画成的圆圈，圆圈里坐着一个人，他的衣服已成了碎布条，难以遮住身体了。

In the centre of the cell lay the body of the servant girl in her night dress, and gloating over this agony stand two ruffians with the cowardly masks of their dark trade on.

在房间中间躺着一个穿着睡衣的女孩儿，而两个蒙面的恶棍正在通过折磨她取乐。

The research is allowed in Britain, which in the years since Bush's restrictions, has become a world centre of stem cell study.

在英国该研究是允许的，自从布什的禁止令以来英国成为了世界干细胞研究的中心。