" Sugar acid" ! said the chemist contemptuously, " don't know it; I'm ignorant of it! But perhaps you want oxalic acid. It is oxalic acid, isn't it" ?

" 糖酸？" 药剂师作出内行瞧不起外行的神气说，" 我不知道，没听说过！ 你恐怕是要买草酸吧？ 是草酸，对不对？"

And to put his arm-chair back in its place he was darting away from the counter, when Binet asked him for half an ounce of sugar acid.

奥默赶快走出柜台，要把扶手椅放回原位，比内却要买半两糖酸。