In 1848, the Metropolitan Police ordered 10,000 truncheons to put down peaceful protests.

1848 年，伦敦警察厅订购了 1 万个警棍。

It was the demand for truncheons that led to the first spike in prices.

正是对警棍的需求导致了价格的首次飙升。

It blew Victorian minds and within a decade they were casting the latex into ear trumpets, shoe soles, golf balls and truncheons.

它让维多利亚时代的人们大为震惊，不到十年，人们就把这种乳胶制成了耳喇叭、鞋底、高尔夫球和警棍。

Even the trowel and the truncheon couldn't control her.

甚至泥刀和警棍都控制不住她。

So the truncheon marched off Mr. Grimes, looking as meek as a drowned worm.

于是，警棍从格莱姆斯先生身边走开，看起来像一条溺水的蠕虫一样温顺。

And there the truncheon knocked twice, with its own head.

在那里，警棍用自己的头敲了两下。

" Take him away, " said she to the truncheon, " and give him his ticket-of-leave" .

“把他带走，”她对警棍说，“把休假票给他。”

And there he walked along the leads, till he met another truncheon, and told him his errand.

他沿着线索走在那里，直到他遇到另一个警棍，并告诉他他的差事。

" Here, my man, out you go on the roof to make one less, and have your truncheon handy" .

“在这里， 伙计，你到屋顶上去少做一个， 把你的警棍放在手边” 。

Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.

这个地方，除非因公，是无法进入的，而且进去也要通过重重铁丝网、铁门、隐蔽的机枪阵地。

" Attention, Mr. Grimes, " said the truncheon; " here is a gentleman come to see you" .

“注意，格兰姆斯先生，”警棍说。 “有一位先生来看你”。

" It's no use, " said the truncheon, leaning itself up against the chimney and looking on.

“没用的，” 警棍说，靠在烟囱上看着。

A ship beating to windward on the horizon, and a huge truncheon of wreck half buried in the sands at my feet, completed the innuendo of the scene.

一艘在地平线上迎风拍打的船，以及半埋在我脚下沙子里的巨大沉船警棍，完成了对场景的暗示。

Up jumped the truncheon, and was going to hit him on the crown a tremendous thump, and drive him down again like a cork into a bottle.

警棍跳了起来， 正要重重地砸在他的头顶上， 然后把他像软木塞塞进瓶子里一样再次击倒。

" No, " interposed the truncheon; " he has come to the place where everybody must help themselves; and he will find it out, I hope, before he has done with me" .

“不，”警棍插话道。 “他已经到了每个人都必须自助的地步；我希望，在他对我下手之前，他会发现的。”

The truncheon leant back against the chimney, and took no notice of the personal insult, like a well-trained policeman as it was, though he was ready enough to avenge any transgression against morality or order.

警棍靠在烟囱上，对这种人身侮辱毫不在意，就像一个训练有素的警察，尽管他已经准备好对任何违反道德或秩序的行为进行报复。

Tom looked up at the enormous wall, which seemed at least ninety miles high, and wondered how he should ever get up: but, when he hinted that to the truncheon, it settled the matter in a moment.

汤姆抬头看着那堵似乎至少有九十英里高的巨墙，想知道他应该怎么站起来：但是，当他向警棍暗示这一点时，事情马上就解决了。

" Keep a civil tongue, and attend" ! said the truncheon; and popped up just like Punch, hitting Grimes such a crack over the head with itself, that his brains rattled inside like a dried walnut in its shell.

“保持礼貌，出席”！警棍说；然后像 Punch 一样突然出现，在 Grimes 的头上打了一个裂缝，以至于他的大脑像壳里的干核桃一样在里面嘎嘎作响。