It was a place where the churchyard lay nearer heaven than the church steeple, where beer was more plentiful than water, and where there were more wanton women than honest wives and maids.

这是一个墓地比教堂尖顶更接近天堂的地方，那里的啤酒比水还多，放荡的女人比诚实的妻子和女仆还多。