麦克菲尔一家和身为传教士的戴维森一家在船上早已亲密无间，这是由于他们走进彼此，而不是因为任何志趣的共享。

Between the Macphails and the Davidsons, who were missionaries, there had arisen the intimacy of shipboard, which is due to proximity rather than to any community of taste.

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传教士的布道致使越来越多的夏威夷人开始放弃当地语言转而学习英文。

The missionaries’ presence resulted in an increasing number of Hawaiians learning English, but at the expense of Hawaiian.

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被收买的传教士的态度，而他在树下遇到，那些人的态度，要更复杂，更有趣。

There's the attitude of the suborned missionary, and there's the more complicated and interesting attitude of the people he encounters sitting under these trees.

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He's the charlatan preacher. We're certainly not meant to identify with him or to sympathize with him, but here you can't help but thinking about someone getting their thumb smashed in a door.

他是虚伪的传教士，我们当然不打算要支持或,同情他，但是读到这儿你禁不住要去,想，某人的大拇指被猛然关上的门夹住的场景。

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The ideal audience for the book," he says "should be the preachers, the gentry, the lawyers, men of affairs, who drawing such water as they find from the book can use it," he says, "to sprinkle the same both from the pulpit and from their conversation upon the people."

他还说，像传教士，贵族，律师，当政者,这样的人就更应该读这本书，因为他们有能力,把从书中汲取的思想认识，通过礼拜或与他人的交谈,有效地传播出去“

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Remember he goes in to the prostitute's house, Mrs. Watts's, and he's got a hat on, and the hat just makes him look like a preacher.

记得有次他去Watts太太的妓院，他戴了顶让他看上去，像传教士的帽子。

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