Americanism would have been bad form in the liberal Edinburgh Review; it would have seemed eccentric even for a Scotchman, and Reeve was a Saxon of Saxons.

美国主义在自由主义的爱丁堡评论中是糟糕的形式；即使对于苏格兰人来说，这也显得古怪，而里夫是撒克逊人中的撒克逊人。

I had not then discovered the surprising fact that we were of the same age; but I saw that we were of the same height, and I saw that in form and in face we were also much the same.

开头我还没发现我们同庚这一惊人事实，但我看出了我们个子一样高，体型和面部轮廓都出奇的相似。