无辜的自行车打气筒被证明是塑料炸弹，钟敲十一下就会爆炸。“他们还会想出什么新玩意儿来?”人们在分别时议论道。

• Innocent bicycle pumps had proved to be plastic bombs and gone off at the stroke of eleven. "What'll they think of next?" people said at partings.