But the overall impact highlights the novel's underlying themes: the hypocrisy of many but compassion of some; the way craven people get the callous rulers they deserve, yet now and then rise to a nobility that deserves better.

多数人的伪善和少数人的悲悯；懦弱的民众服从暴君自食其果，虽然不时的那点高尚，似乎值得更好的统治。

We are going to be dead pretty soon and all those cancer stories point us in one direction only: towards the need to stop being a craven, imitative, second hand timid flunkey and herd-animal.

人生苦短，个接个癌症故事只教会我们件事：不要做个懦弱、只会模仿他人、胆小的奴仆和群居动物。

In an example of just utter, craven cowardice refused to publish the book.

这些怯懦的胆小鬼们拒绝出版此书。

Which bucket of follower people fall into will undoubtedly depend on their boss: plenty of leaders like the idea of being challenged and then, when confronted with it in practice, find that they prefer craven submissiveness.

人们属于哪类型的追随者无疑将取决于他们的老板：许多领导嘴上说喜欢被挑战质疑，但在实践中面对挑战时，他们发现自己更喜欢懦弱顺从的下属。

It can be immensely hard not to think that those who offer us love are in some ways weak, mistaken, needy, craven or just defective.

我们容易认为给予我们爱的人软弱的、黏人的、怯懦的、搞状况或纯粹感情过度丰沛。

" He took me unawares. A craven's trick" .

" 啧啧，他不过乘我不备。这懦夫的诡计。"

" The brave man slays with a sword, the craven with a wineskin. We are both kingslayers, ser" .

" 勇士用剑，懦夫用酒，我们都弑君者，爵士。"

And a lot of these, we've talked about this, these law firms, they have good values in certain respects, they are craven corporations in others, as are many institutions.

我们之前讨论过，这些律师事务所，在某些方面它们有着良好的价值观念，但在其他方面，它们和其他许多机构，怯懦的企业。

The extremity of my despair and my repentance would have been taken for a craven fear of death by the Valenods and all the patricians of the locality.

我极度的绝望和忏悔会被瓦勒诺德人和当地所有的贵族视为对死亡的胆怯恐惧。

So Pujardov, you know, he fancies himself this unshakable, principled man of God, but really he's a craven worshiper of power, and he wants that paycheck.

所以普贾多夫，他自认为个坚定不移、原则分明的上帝之子，但实际上他不过个胆小怕事、崇拜权力的人，而且他只在乎那份薪水。

" I am no lord, sire" . Jon rose. " I know what you have heard. That I am a tumcloak, and craven. That I slew my brother Qhorin Halfhand so the wildlings would spare my life. That I rode with Mance Rayder, and took a wildling wife" .

" 我不人，陛下。" 琼恩站起身，" 我知道您听说了什么。我个变色龙和胆小鬼；我杀了自己的弟兄‘断掌’科林，以保全性命；我跟曼斯·雷德起骑行，还娶了个野人老婆。"

" He is no craven" . One of the archers pulled off her sewn sheepskin helm and shook out a head of shaggy red hair. " This is the Bastard o' Winterfell, who spared me. Let him live" .

" 他不懦夫。" 位射手掀开山羊皮头盔，露出满头杂乱红发。" 他临冬城的私生子，他放了我。让他活命。"

" As oft he did, " Lord Nestor said. " The man was craven, but the favor Lady Lysa showed him made him insolent. She dressed him like a lord, gave him gold rings and a moonstone belt" .

" 他就那，" 奈斯特男爵确认，" 个懦夫，只会躲在女人裙下，因莱莎夫人的宠信而傲慢无礼。您知道吗？她把他打扮成领主的子，还给了他黄金臂环和镶月长石的腰带。"

Cletus and Will are dead. " Pay them no mind, " Quentyn said. The sellswords threw taunts at their backs as they pushed through the doors of the Merchant's House, mocking them as bloodless cravens and frightened girls.

克莱图斯和小威都不在了。" 别管他们，" 昆廷吩咐。他们推门进入商人之屋，佣兵在他们身后肆意嘲讽，骂他们没血性的懦夫和吓破了胆的姑娘。

Further, there is emotion for him to pronounce on, and in no department can he do more useful work than in bracing a writer against sentimentality on the one hand and a craven fear of expressing his feeling on the other.

此外，他还需要表达自己的情感，在任何部门中，他都能做比方面支持作家反对多愁善感，另方面反对表达自己感情的怯懦更有用的工作。

Wake Forest University's Eric Wilson fumes that the obsession with happiness amounts to a " craven disregard" for the melancholic perspective that has given rise to the greatest works of art.

维克森林的埃里克·威尔逊愤怒地指出，对幸福的过度追求实际上对那些催生伟艺术作品的忧郁视角的“怯懦忽视”。

We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens.

我们受到许多邪恶的威胁，尤其叛国罪;但有件事没有说：我们将遭受怯懦、懦弱或对懦夫的恐惧。

The king rose to his feet, his face flushed. " Are you telling me those prancing cravens will let me win? "

国王满脸通红，霍地站起，" 你的意思那些没用的胆小鬼会故意失手？"

Craven, hedonistic, power-mad, pushing the limits.

怯懦、享乐、权力狂、挑战极限。

" You keep it, " Sam said. " You're not craven like me" .

" 你留着它，" 山姆道，" 你不像我，你不胆小鬼。"