Chapter 68

It is a strange, blind sort of world we are in, with lots of blind alleys¹, down which we go blundering² in the fog after some seedy gaslight, which we take for the sun till we run against the wall at the end, and find out that the light is a gaslight, and that there’s no thoroughfare. But for all that, one does get on. You get to know the sun’s light better and better, and to keep out of the blind alleys; and I am surer and surer every day that there’s always sunlight enough for every honest fellow, and a good sound road under his feet, if he will only step out on it.

1 alleys   

胡同，小巷( alley的名词复数 )； 小径

参考例句：

• I followed him through a maze of narrow alleys. 我紧随他穿过一条条迂迴曲折的窄巷。
• The children lead me through the maze of alleys to the edge of the city. 孩子们领我穿过迷宫一般的街巷，来到城边。

2 blundering   

浮躁的，笨拙的，易犯错的

参考例句：

• She came up to guide him when he was blundering away. 他踉踉跄跄地离去时，她上前替他引路。
• The wounded elephant was blundering. 那头受伤的象在瞎闯。