Some boys used mattocks to maul him and forced him to genuflect on the mattress.

一些男孩用鹤跸 锄殴打他并强迫他跪在褥垫上。

Precisely. These mines extend under the waves like the coalfields at Newcastle. Here, dressed in diving suits, pick and mattock in hand, my men go out and dig this carbon fuel for which I don't need a single mine on land.

正是这样。这些矿藏摆在海水下面，像纽卡斯尔的媒坑一样。就在这地方，穿上潜水衣，手拿锄和铲，我的人员去采煤，我因此用不着向地上的旷藏要煤。

I get levers and mattocks to demolish the two houses, and train myself to be capable of working like Hercules, and when everything is ready and in my power, I find the will to lift a slate off either roof has vanished!

我用撬杆和锄头来毁灭这两所房子，并且把我自己训练得能像赫库里斯一样的工作，等到一切都准备好，并且是在我权力之中了，我却发现掀起任何一所房子的一片瓦的意志都已经消失了！