At the village postal office , the old clerk , mr. thackeray , took the package from her as she entered .

她一进门，村邮局里年迈的职员萨克莱先生便接过包裹。

This has always been an upscale district . Rubens , tennyson , stendhal , balzac , liszt , wagner , thackeray , byron , keats-they all stayed here .

这儿始终是高级区，鲁本斯（rubens）、丁尼生（tennyson）、司汤达、巴尔扎克、李斯特、瓦格纳（wagner）、萨克莱、拜伦、济慈他们都待过这里。

Or that , as william thackeray said , a man over 50 should never write a novel ?

或者如威廉萨克雷所说的，男人过了50就不该写小说？

It is to the middle class we must look for the prosperity of africa , to paraphrase william thackeray .

化用威廉萨克雷的话说，若求非洲之繁荣，当赖其中产阶级。

Or , for that matter , no fuss was made at the time when william shakespeare and william makepeace thackeray , both celebrated as masters of the tongue , used they in the singular form .

或者还有，当威廉莎士比亚（williamshakespeare）和威廉梅克比斯克雷（williammakepeacethackeray）将they用作单数时也没人大惊小怪，他们可都是公认的语言大师。