Englishwomen of the 1700's wrote men's names on scraps of paper, rolled each in a little piece of clay, and dropped them all into water.
1700年的英格兰女性把男人的名字写在纸片上,把每一小块放在泥里滚,然后把他们全都丢进水里。
The sight of the hotel itself is enough to crush him: it's a pretentious place with one of those huge empty lobbies in which Englishwomen sit for hours with a blank look.