【漢譯英】
一去二三裏,煙村四五家。
亭台六七座,八九十枝花。
【英譯漢】
The idea of aligning waking hours to daylingt hours to conserve candles was first proposed in 1784 by US polymath Benjamin Franklin. In a satirical letter to the editor of The Journal of Paris, Franklin suggested that waking up earlier in the summer would economize candle usage and calculated considerable savings.
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【idioms】
Up in arms (Being grumpy or angry about something)
The Republicans, predictably,are up in arms.