她嫁到一个显赫的家族。
显赫的家族之间相互通婚;因此上层社会的人差不多都是沾亲带故。
Leading families intermarry; practically everyone in the top flight is thus related.
这二人虽出身于萨勒姆一家身世显赫的家族,但声名狼藉,法院记录显示,理查德是萨勒姆出了名的“惹事生非者”。
The Crowninshield brothers were the disreputable scions of an eminent Salem family. Richard, according to court transcripts, was known to favor Salem’s “haunts of vice.”
But how do you get to Uriah Parmelee, a kid from Connecticut, obviously bright enough or connected enough to get into Yale, who gave all that up for something he saw as a lot higher?
你们该如何理解乌利亚·帕米利,一个从康乃狄格农村来的小孩,很显然,要么聪明绝顶,要么家族显赫,他放弃一切,追求至高
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