它们以前是用来装殓尸体的；而现在鼠尾草和桂足香在其中生长。

They used to contain corpses; now sage and wallflowers grow in them.

除了民族的堕落以外，还得加上个人所受的苦难，无论你是谁，你在僧衣和面纱？人类发明的两种装殓死人的服饰？

Add individual tortures to national degradations, and, whoever you may be, you will shudder before the frock and the veil, — those two winding-sheets of human devising.