在世界上战斗;但那是遥远的未来。而母亲,她的长子,习惯于看着她的孩子们,感谢上帝,杰姆所渴望的“昔日勇敢的日子”已经一去不复返了,而且再也没有必要了。
(fought in the world; but that was as yet far in the future; and the mother, whose first-born son he was, was wont to look on her boys and thank God that the "brave days of old," which Jem longed for, were gone for ever, and that never would it be necessary for the)