(多选题)2: Understatement is applied in ________.
A: It is the rarest thing in the world to hear a rational discussion of vivisection.
B: What he thought was, “I must have a Navy as good as Grandmamma’s.”
C: When the Arabs, who had been used to living sparingly on a few dates, acquired the riches of the Eastern Roman Empire…
D: When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the Gospel to pumpkin pie.
