I had been visiting a friend in Hankow and was returning by the Pekin express.

我去汉口拜访一位朋友， 正乘北京快车返回。

I am afraid I must hasten to-morrow to Pekin on urgent business.

恐怕明天我得赶去北京办要紧事。

If this goes wrong, you won't be the one doing 15 in Pekin.

出了差错 蹲15年大牢的又不是你。

He made a remarkable journey to Pekin and brought back the first consignment in the year 1809.

1809 年， 他进行了一次非凡的北京之旅， 并带回了第一批货物。

Even the Muscovites now trade regularly with China, by a sort of caravans which go over land through Siberia and Tartary to Pekin.

甚至莫斯科人现在也经常通过一种商队与中国进行贸易，商队穿越西伯利亚和鞑靼地区到达北京。

In the year of Waterloo two English missionaries, traveling overland to Pekin, crossed the ranges by an unnamed pass and had the extraordinary luck to arrive as calmly as if they were paying a call.

在滑铁卢那一年， 两名英国传教士从陆路前往北京， 通过一个无名的山口越过山脉， 并非常幸运地平静地到达， 就像他们正在拜访一样。

It was not, however, from Lhasa but from Pekin, in the year 1719, that four Capuchin friars set out in search of any remnants of the Nestorian faith that might still be surviving in the hinterland.

然而，1719 年，四名嘉布遣会修道士并非来自拉萨，而是来自北京，开始寻找内地可能仍然存在的任何景教残余。