古德明英语军事小故事：书 到 用 时 方 恨 少 (中英对照)
古德明《征服英语》之英语军事故事，古德明，香港英语教育作家，他开了一个《征服英语专栏》，在专栏中专门用英语写了世界近代史上的军事小故事，用英语讲述历史中那些惊心动魄的战争。书 到 用 时 方 恨 少
during the defence of the lucknow residency in the indian mutiny of 1857, all kinds of unusual items were used to construct barricades. some works of great literature, complete with leather bindings, served to hold the sepoys at bay. on one occasion just one hundred pages of a copy of lardner's encyclopaedia stopped a musket ball, while byron's complete poems, although suffering complete destruction in the process, stopped a cannonball. apparently, so impressive were the defensive qualities of such heavy reading that financial commissioner martin gubbins wished that every door could be protected by books. on the other hand, unbound oriental manuscripts, at the house of the french merchant depratt, proved incapable of stopping musket shots and were consumed by fire.
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