So you have figures like Ebenezer Scrooge or Mr. Gradgrind.

所以你有像以彼为例·斯克罗吉或格莱恩格林先生这样的角色。

He, too, could have come out of a book of Dickensian eccentrics, although perhaps Ebenezer Scrooge or Thomas Gradgrind comes to mind rather than the kindly old Mr.

他也可能出自一本狄更斯式的怪人书，尽管可能想到的 Ebenezer Scrooge 或 Thomas Gradgrind，而良的老先生。

'Let me seriously entreat you to reconsider this, Bounderby, ' urged Mr. Gradgrind, 'before you commit yourself to such a decision'.

“让我郑重其事地恳请你重新考虑一下，庞得贝，”葛擂硬先生催促道，“在你做出这样的决定之前”。

'Now, girl, ' said Mr. Gradgrind, 'take this gentleman and me to your father's; we are going there.

“现在，姑娘，” 葛雷格林先生说， “带这位先生和我去你父亲家； 我们要去那里。

'Was this boy running after you, Jupe'? asked Mr. Gradgrind.

“这个男孩在追你吗，Jupe”？ Gradgrind先生问。

Miss Gradgrind readily permitting Mrs. Sparsit to do anything she pleased, that considerate lady made the beverage, and handed it to Mr. Bounderby. 'It will do you good, sir. It will warm your heart.

Gradgrind 小姐然允许 Sparsit 太太为所欲为，那位体贴的女士调制饮料，递给庞得贝先生。 “这对你有好处，先生。它会温暖你的心。

I have only one thing more to say to you, Mr. Harthouse, before assuring you of the pleasure with which I shall respond, to the utmost of my poor ability, to my friend Tom Gradgrind's letter of introduction.

哈特豪斯先生， 在向您保证我将尽我微薄之力尽我所能回复我朋友汤姆·葛雷格林的介绍信之前， 我只有一件事要对您说。

He wrote two more notes. One, to Mr. Bounderby, announcing his retirement from that part of the country, and showing where he would be found for the next fortnight. The other, similar in effect, to Mr. Gradgrind.

他两张纸条。一封给庞得贝先生的，宣布他将从该国的那个地区退休，并说明接下来的两周他会在哪里找到。另一个，实际上与 Gradgrind 先生相似。

'Nothing for me, I thank you, ' said Mr. Gradgrind.

“对我来说没什么，我谢谢你，”Gradgrind 先生说。

'You found Miss Gradgrind—I really cannot call her Mrs. Bounderby; it's very absurd of me—as youthful as I described her'? asked Mrs. Sparsit, sweetly.

“你找到 Gradgrind 小姐——我真的能称她为 Bounderby 夫人；我真太荒谬——像我描述的那样年轻”？斯巴塞太太甜甜地问。

'Hush! ' said Mr. Gradgrind, 'that is enough.

“嘘！ ” Gradgrind先生说， '够。

What was there in her soul for James Harthouse to destroy, which Thomas Gradgrind had nurtured there in its state of innocence!

有什么值得詹姆斯·哈特豪斯去摧毁的， 而托马斯·葛雷格瑞德在她的灵魂中以纯真的状态培育她！

'My dear, ' said Mr. Gradgrind, 'I must speak with you alone and seriously.

“亲爱的，” 葛磨先生说， “我必须和你单独严肃地谈谈。

They all three went in; and Mr. Gradgrind sat down forlorn, on the Clown's performing chair in the middle of the ring.

他们三个都进去；葛磨先生凄凉地坐在擂台中央的小丑表演椅上。

It was quite in Mr. Bounderby's gusty way to boast to all his world that he didn't care about your highly connected people, but that if his wife Tom Gradgrind's daughter did, she was welcome to their company.

庞得贝先生用狂妄的方式向他的整个世界吹嘘说他关心你关系密切的人，但如果他妻子汤姆·葛雷格林的女儿关心，那么欢迎她加入他们的公司。

I should have no power of keeping you against his wish, and he would have no difficulty, at any time, in finding Mr. Thomas Gradgrind of Coketown.

我无权违背他的意愿留住你， 而且他在任何时候都能毫费力地找到焦煤镇的托马斯·葛雷格林先生。

From the moment of that interchange of looks, they never uttered his name, or any reference to him, aloud; nor ever pursued the subject of the robbery, when Mr. Gradgrind spoke of it.

从那次交换眼神的那一刻起，他们就再也没有大声说出他的名字，或任何提及他的地方；当 Gradgrind 先生谈到这件事时，她也从追究抢劫的话题。

Mr. Bounderby being restrained by this mild suggestion, Mr. Gradgrind found an opening for his eminently practical exposition of the subject.

庞德贝先生被这个温和的建议制止，葛雷格林先生找到一个机会，可以对这个主题进行非常实用的阐述。

Tom Gradgrind, as your son, young Tom, refuses for some obstinate reason or other to say anything at all about those statements, good or bad, I am obliged to confront her with your daughter'.

Tom Gradgrind，作为你的儿子，小汤姆，出于某种顽固的原因或其他原因拒绝对这些陈述发表任何看法，无论好坏，我得让她与你的女儿对质。”

'And what, ' asked Mr. Gradgrind, in a still lower voice, 'did you read to your father, Jupe'?

“还有什么，”葛雷格林先生用更低的声音问道，“朱佩，你读给你父亲听吗？”