※ 引述《decorum (當時明月在)》之銘言：
: ...... 帕爾烏斯的不幸人生在本書也是以翻譯失誤為結尾：
: It did not help that Lenin had not ventured to reward him, nor that the
: Soviet state had branded him a traitor, shutting him out of a drama that he
: once dreamed of orchestrating.
It did not help that Lenin had not ventured to reward him, nor (did it help)
that the Soviet state had branded him a traitor, shutting him out of a drama
that he once dreamed of orchestrating.