'Venice is dead, Venice is deserted, ' her citizens will tell you, but perhaps this last charm—the charm of decay—was not vouchsafed her in the very heyday of the flower and majesty of her beauty.
“威尼斯死了,威尼斯被遗弃了,”她的市民会告诉你,但也许这最后的魅力——腐朽的魅力——在她美丽的花朵和威严的全盛期并没有被赐予。