For this race, though, he had already placed a bet on one of the horses.

不过，这次赛马，他已经在其中的一匹马上下了注。

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However, he had begun dreaming of a big house, a big piece of land and buying horses and cows... he kept pulling in the chain though the boat kept sinking.

然而，他却依旧做着没完没了的黄粱美梦：“我可以买一幢大房子，置一大片稻田，再买下几头牛、几匹马…”尽管小船一直往下沉，他却依然贪心地拖着金链。

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Though modern jockeys are diminutive in size and this gives them an advantage of being light on a horses back, the meaning of “little man” was more along the lines of “commoner” or “underling.”

虽然现代的骑师通常都身材矮小，那将使他们在马背上更加轻盈，但“little man”的含义更类似于“平民”或“下属”。

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Though her father was an earl, Diana's loathing for horses, summers in Balmoral and the rest was a key plank of her case that she was a modern princess and a better parent than her husband, the Prince of Wales.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot