他们就这样继续争论下去，直到 B 大哥说他愿意下两万英镑的赌注，赌这个人靠这一百万反正能活三十天，而且还不会进监狱。

They went on disputing till Brother B said he would bet twenty thousand pounds that the man would live thirty days, anyway, on that million, and keep out of jail, too.

youdao

“钱就这样从他们的口袋里转到银行的腰包里了，”他说。

"This is money out of their pockets lining the purses of the Banks," he said.

youdao

明天我就提出还他的钱，他一定会大吹大擂，说他怎么样爱你疼你，那么事情就这样完了。

I shall offer to pay him tomorrow; he will rant and storm about his love for you, and there will be an end of the matter.

youdao

I am going to emphasize what you perhaps did anticipate that he would say, so that can take us along rather smoothly.

我会重点讲你可能已经预想到的他会说的东西,这样我们就可以顺利地把课程进行下去。

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I am at the point of believing," he says, "that my labor will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato," he says in a moment of sort of uncharacteristic despair, "will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato."

我就快相信，自己所做的这一切都将是无用功,就像柏拉图所建立的理想国一样,他曾异常绝望地这样说，就像柏拉图的理想国一样毫无意义“

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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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