1. 总有一天，这些高耸的镀金拱顶会变成踩在脚下的碎屑；其时，这儿决不会听到有什么音乐和赞美歌，只有破拱门里的飒飒风声，伴和着破塔上的枭啼—其时，眩目的阳光将穿进这些幽暗的墓堂，常春藤将攀绕在倾倒的圆柱上；毛地黄把花冠垂在无名者的骨灰瓮上，仿佛嘲笑里面的死人。
The time must come when its gilded vaults which now spring so loftily, shall lie in rubbish beneath the feet; when instead of the sound of melody and praise the wind shall whistle through the broken arches and the owl hoot from the shattered tower; when the garish sunbeam shall break into these gloomy mansions of death, and the ivy twine round the fallen column; and the fox-glove hang its blossoms about the nameless urn, as if in mockery of the dead.
2. 它们和周围死一般的宁静构成强烈的对照；在寺里边听到外面紧张生活的浪潮冲激着这个墓堂的墙壁，真有说不出的奇异感觉。
The contrast is striking with the deathlike repose around; and it has a strange effect upon the feelings thus to hear the surges of active life hurrying along and beating against the very walls of the sepulchre.
3. 黄铜大门，雕饰得富丽精巧，开启时绞链发出吃力的转动声，好像傲慢得不愿让凡夫俗子擅自闯入这所最华丽的墓堂。
Great gates of brass, richly and delicately wrought, turn heavily upon their hinges, as if proudly reluctant to admit the feet of common mortals into this most gorgeous of sepulchres.