Behind the car came a motley string of figures—street Arabs, beggars, clowns turning somersaults, and costermongers hawking their wares.

汽车后面是一串形形色色的人物——街头阿拉伯人、乞丐、翻跟头的小丑和叫卖商品的小贩。

London, at the time the world's largest and most prosperous city, was in a permanent state of gridlock, with carts, costermongers, cows, and commuters jamming the roads.

伦敦作为当时世界最大最繁荣的市，正处于一种长期交通瘫痪的状态，路是被推车、小贩、牛和行人给堵住了。

Too far, in fancy, above the rest of mankind to trouble about their petty distinctions, he is equally at home with duke or costermonger.

在幻想中，他远远高于其他人，不会为他们的小区别而烦恼，他与公爵或 costermonger 一样在家里。

May it, perhaps, be hoped that once again the multitude will be somehow touched with disgust? — that the market for " literary" news of this costermonger sort will some day fail?

或许，人们会再次被某种方式厌恶吗？——这种廉价的“文学” 新闻市场有一天会失败吗？