My above 评论 makes for a perfect shoehorn for one of my 最喜爱的 quotes: "Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, 或者 the Country's done for. 你 will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail." -A 圣诞节 Carol一年多以前