Just my two cents' worth based on forty years' wandering around observing with eyes and ears open.
這一聲不約而同的叫喚,像禁咒似的立刻奏效;正在爭論着什麼事的人聲立刻停止了,許多臉都轉了方向,許多眼光*向這站在門邊的雷參謀的身上。
"The pincher," was his thought; "too miserly to burn two cents' worth of gas and save his boarders' necks."