PREFACE.

These remarks are addressed to the young, in the hope that when they arrive at man’s estate they will use their best endeavours to do away with Law 91.

To the present generation, already acquainted with “the Game,” I should no more presume to offer advice than I should presume to teach my lamented¹ Grandmother to suck eggs, if she were still alive.
“To instruct them, no art could ever reach,
No care improve them and no wisdom teach.”
Proverbs, chap. 27, v. 22.

1 lamented   

adj.被哀悼的，令人遗憾的v.（为…）哀悼，痛哭，悲伤( lament的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• her late lamented husband 她那令人怀念的已故的丈夫
• We lamented over our bad luck. 我们为自己的不幸而悲伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》