我独自一人在这个世界上,除了我的机智和清白的名声之外,没有什么可依靠的。但这些都是我通向最终命运之路的跳板,我对这种前景感到满意。
I was alone in the world, and had nothing to depend upon but my wits and a clean reputation, but these were setting my feet in the road to eventual fortune, and I was content with the prospect.
我们也发现,除了他们的家庭和亲密朋友的小圈子之外,他们对公民生活几乎没有什么兴趣。
We also found little interest in civic life beyond the tight circles of their family and immediate friends.
另一方面,《太阳报》一片贫瘠,除了小小的消遣之外,没有什么可提供的;如今几乎没有人会管它叫报纸。
On the other hand, the Sun was a scanty sheet providing little more than minor diversions; few today would call it a newspaper at all.
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