Assuredly, the Nautilus didn't avoid the heavily traveled seas of Europe, and from this insight I concluded that the ship would take us back-perhaps very soon-to more civilized shores. I expected Ned Land to greet this news with unfeigned satisfaction.

很显然，诺第留斯号并不逃避来的欧洲海面，我因此可以—或者不久—它要把我们带到明的陆地海中去。我想尼德·兰听到这个特别消息，一定非常满意。