As it advanced , the mender of roads would discern without surprise , that it was a shaggy - haired man , of almost barbarian aspect , tall , in wooden shoes that were clumsy even to the eyes of a mender of roads , grim , rough , swart , steeped in the mud and dust of many highways , dank with the marshy moisture of many low grounds , sprinkled with the thorns and leaves and 那人影走上前来，补路工便会毫不意外地发现，那是一个几乎像野人一样毛挺毵毵的高个儿，脚上的木鞋就连补路工看去也嫌太累赘。那人凶猛粗犷黝黑，浸渍了多少大路上的风尘和泥浆，漏染了多少低地沼泽的潮气，身上粘满了森林僻路上的荆棘树叶和苔藓。
It was in these dank and airless rooms , not far from his official residence in downing street , central london , where churchill had coded telephone conversations with president franklin d . roosevelt , plotted campaigns with generals and slept during the heaviest nights of bombing 这个地下掩体距离伦敦市中心唐宁街的首相官邸不远，然而就是在这些阴湿密不透风的房间里，丘吉尔曾通过密码电话和当时的美国总统罗斯福进行通话，和诸位将军共商军事大计，当伦敦遭受二战中最猛烈的轰炸的时候，丘吉尔也是在这里度过难关的。
