Mr Desmond remains a talented writer, and his prose can be crisp, elegant and elegiac.

德斯蒙德先生仍然是华横溢的作家，他的散文可以明快、优雅和挽歌。

Still, at the elegiac close of his book, the author describes depredations wrought on the coast that affect everyone: not just the rampant building, but the accompanying organised crime, corruption and social tensions.

尽管如此，在这本书的结尾处，作者以挽歌的形式描述了岸上发生的影响到每个人的掠夺：不仅仅是猖獗的建筑，还有随之而来的有组织犯罪、腐败和社会紧张局势。

A number of other Christian, heroic and elegiac poems, secular and Christian prose, as well as riddles, short verses, gnomes and mnemonic poems for remembering long lists of names, have also come down to us more or less intact.

许多其他的基督教、英雄和挽歌诗歌、世俗和基督教散文， 以及谜语、短诗、侏儒和用于记住长串名字的助记诗， 也或多或少地原封不动地流传下来。