They are not yet altogether a part of the dusty past, but occupy a middle distance within cry of our affections.
他们尚未完全归入尘封的往昔,而是停留在不远不近之处,仍能听见我们情感的呼唤。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers · Some Portraits by Raeburn —
They are not yet altogether a part of the dusty past, but occupy a middle distance within cry of our affections.
他们尚未完全归入尘封的往昔,而是停留在不远不近之处,仍能听见我们情感的呼唤。