Surely, you would all agree that we shouldn't put the right to individual liberty up to a vote.

选民们，你们肯定都赞同不该以投票来决定个人自由 [这本应是不投票就有的]。

And nine years, Catherine knew, was a trifle of time, compared with what generally elapsed after the death of an injured wife, before her room was put to rights.

九年，凯瑟琳知道，与一位受伤的妻子去世后，她的房间恢复正常之前通常所经过的时间相比，这只是微不足道的时间。