but he was really half dead with fatigue, and all that I could make out, amongst her scolding, was a tale of his seeing it starving, and houseless, and as good as dumb, in the streets of Liverpool; 我在她的责骂声中,只能听出来是这么回事:他在利物浦的大街上看见这孩子快要饿死了,无家可归,又像哑巴一样。