The Latin adage meeteth with it a little: Magna civitas,magna solitudo; because in a great town friends are scattered; so that there is not that fellowship,for the most part,which is in less neighborhoods.

• 这种情形有句拉丁成语略能形容之：“一座大城市就是一片大荒野”；因为在一座大城市里朋友们是散居各处的，所以就其大概而言，不像在小一点的城镇里，有那样的交情。