For while George was a husband and father of earnest strenuousness, the majority of his eight siblings turned out to be a giddy and ill-behaved crew.

尽管乔治是一位诚挚热情的丈夫和父亲，他的八个兄弟姐妹大都是轻率且品行不良。

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So it is simultaneously in his very first sentence a Marxist and a Darwinian vocabulary that Eikhenbaum is invoking, and that's what partly accounts for the strenuousness of his rhetoric.

所以艾肯鲍姆文章的第一句话同时引用了,达尔文主义和马克思主义，这部分解释了为什么,他的文章读起来那么吃力。

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