Mr Desmond remains a talented writer, and his prose can be crisp, elegant and elegiac.

德斯蒙德先生仍然是一位才华横溢作家，他散文可以明快、挽歌。

Still, at the elegiac close of his book, the author describes depredations wrought on the coast that affect everyone: not just the rampant building, but the accompanying organised crime, corruption and social tensions.

尽管如此，在这本书结尾处，作者以挽歌形式描述了岸上发生影响到每个人掠夺：不仅仅是猖獗建筑，还有随之而来有织犯罪、腐败社会紧张局势。

A number of other Christian, heroic and elegiac poems, secular and Christian prose, as well as riddles, short verses, gnomes and mnemonic poems for remembering long lists of names, have also come down to us more or less intact.

许多其他基督教、英雄挽歌诗歌、世俗基督教散文， 以及谜语、短诗、侏儒用于记住一长串名字助记诗， 也或多或少地原封不动地流传下来。