It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

这是一件好事，有几千人都僵硬和冻结在一起，在一个人的手掌。

-- Charles Dickens 查尔斯·狄更斯