It was all a lie, and he had been smart enough to see through it.
He had spent his youth and manhood serving a lie,
lying for the lie, betraying for the lie,
abandoning that “green and pleasant land” and all for a lie.
这一句是：
Even though the bedrock of Marxism- Leninism in Britain has always been in the trade union movement,
true believers were excluded from the Labour Party itself.
同样以福赛思的成名作《豺狼的日子》(又曾译作《查克尔的末日》)为例。 维京出版公司1971年版第286页中的一整段被砍掉：
Her thigh was pressed against him below the belly and through the satin of her dress she felt the rigid arrogance
of his prick. For a second she withdrew her leg,
then pushed it back again. There was no conscious moment of decision-taking;
the realisation came without effort that she wanted him badly,
between her thighs, inside her belly, all night.
第289页有一整段被砍掉：
He had been good, this English primitive, hard but skilled,
knowing how to use fingers and tongue and prick to bring her on five times and himself three.
She could still feel the blazing heat going into her when he came,
and she knew how badly she had needed a night like this for so long when she responded as she had
not for years.
同一页又有几段被砍掉：
The Englishman muttered, half asleep.
They were both lying naked among the disordered sheets,
but the central heating kept the room comfortably warm.
The blond head disengaged itself from her hand and slid between her thighs.
She could feel the tickle of the hot breath and the tongue flickering in search again.
"No, no more.”
She closed her thighs quickly,
sat up and grabbed the hair, raising his face until she could look at him. He eased himself up the bed,
plunged his face onto one of her full heavy breasts and started to kiss.
"I said no.”
由于被砍掉好几段的原故，再加上诲盗诲淫的宗旨，下面的这一问句就被故意误译成“睡得好吗？”。
"It was good?”
实际上对照上下文，不言而喻这里问的是对作爱的评价和感受。
第311页又有一整段被砍掉：
She pushed his shoulder so that he rolled back onto the bed, then gripped his wrists and pinned them against the pillow as she climbed over him.
He stared back up at her as she knelt above him,
her thighs gripping his ribs hard.
She smiled down at him,
two curing strands of hair falling down to the nipples.
"Bon, mon primitif, now let’s see you perform."
He eased his head forward as her bottom rose off his chest, and started.
