Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
Alas my lordsour vaults contain only rats and roaches.
哎呀，我的大人们，我们的国库已经只剩下老鼠和蟑螂了。
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It's easy to find scientists and lay people who consider this sense of loss mere sentimentality unworthy of our status as 'the lords and possessors of nature', to repeat Descartes' unhappy phrase.