10.Here and there a gloomy old palace, solitary among the squalid houses and filthy courts, stood between two noisome ditches, with a forlorn air of trying to preserve its ancient dignity and yet of knowing the effort to be a hopeless one.
到处都是阴森森的古老宫殿,孤零零地坐落在肮脏的房屋和肮脏的庭院之间,矗立在两条臭气熏天的沟渠之间,带着一种试图保持其古老尊严的凄凉气氛,但又知道努力成为一个无望的人。机翻