It needed more polishing, but the term was getting on toward the end, and he wanted to give me as much time as he possibly could to answer his dissent.

它需要更多的润色，但提交期快结束了，他想给我尽可能多的时间来回答他的异议。

Well, I just sat there. It was getting on toward sundown, and town was about five miles. They never even had guts enough to puncture it, to jab a hole in it. They just let the air out.

好吧，我只是坐在那里。太阳快落山了，镇子大约有五英里。他们甚至没有足够的勇气去刺破它，在上面戳一个洞。他们只是让空气出去。