他们很势利眼，不喜欢才智和社会地位不如自己的人。

They had a snobbish dislike for their intellectual and social inferiors.

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是那些不如自己想象的那么聪明的金融家吗？

Are the financiers who were not as clever as they thought they were?

youdao

你们从小就对我灌输，金窝、银窝不如自己的狗窝，那现实呢？

You taught me since my childhood that a house of gold or silver is never as good as my own tumbledown home, but what's the reality?

youdao

The sovereign is not the direct expression of my will or your will, but rather an abstraction from my natural desire to rule myself.

君主制不是对我的，或者你的意志的直接表达,不如说是一种抽象概念,是源于自己统治自己的自然愿望。

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who will help me out？ They find themselves surrounded, and Paris is--it's nothing like- - it's one-third the size of London at this same time, or at any other time, but it has a huge circumference.

谁来帮我下,他们发现自己被包围了,巴黎成为,巴黎已经大不如前,它仅仅相当于,当时或其他时期伦敦规模的三分之一,还是一个巨大的牢笼

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