Thousands of his compeers could talk much better than he, at any time.

在任何时候， 成千上万的同龄人都比他说得更好。

He moreover considered that foreign noblemen, rich and eccentric, might have habits of acting which were quite at variance with those of their English compeers.

此外，他还认为，富有而古怪的外国贵族的行为习惯可英国贵族径庭。

Children are brought up to-day, in happy contrast with my compeers, to feel that the pencil is no instrument of torture, hardly indeed to distinguish it from the tongue.

我的同龄人形成鲜明对比的是， 如今的孩子们被培养成认为铅笔不是刑具， 几乎无法将它舌头区分开来。

His cunning was fresh with the day, and his qualms were gone with the night—in which particulars it is not improbable that he had compeers in Fleet-street and the City of London, that fine morning.

他的狡猾在白天变得新鲜，而他的不安在夜晚消失了——在那个晴朗的早晨，在舰队街和伦敦金融城， 他在细节上很可有竞争对手。