My uncle, Pliny the elder, looked more asleep than dead. 与其说我叔叔老普利尼是死的,倒不如说他睡着了。
In two letters to the historian Tacitus, the nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote the only eyewitness account of the great eruption of Vesuvius. 在给塔希托的两封信中,老普林尼的侄子写了有关威苏威火山大喷发的唯一的证言。