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是自食其果，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，一个接一个癌症故事只教会一件事：不要做一个懦弱、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.

人属于哪一类型的追随者无疑将取决于他的老板：许多领导嘴上说喜欢被挑战质疑，但在实践面挑战时，他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.

易认为给予爱的人是软弱的、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，他不过乘不备。这是懦夫的诡计。"

" 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，都是弑君者，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.

之前讨论过，这些律师事务所，在某些方面它有着良好的价值观念，但在其他方面，它和其他许多机构一样，是怯懦的企业。

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.

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，他自认为是个坚定不移、原则分明的上帝之子，但实际上他不过是个胆小怕事、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" .

" 不是大人，陛下。" 琼恩站起身，" 知道您听说了什么。是个变色龙和胆小鬼；杀了自己的弟兄‘断掌’科林，以保全性命；跟曼斯·雷德一起骑行，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" .

" 他不是懦夫。" 一位射手掀开山羊皮头盔，露出满头杂乱红发。" 他是临冬城的私生子，是他放了。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" .

" 他就是那样，" 奈斯特男爵确认，" 一个懦夫，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样子，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，" 昆廷吩咐。他推门进入商人之屋，佣兵在他身后肆意嘲讽，骂他是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，他都能做比一方面支持作家反多愁善感，另一方面反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.

维克森林大学的埃里克·威尔逊愤怒地指出，幸福的过度追求实际上是那些催生伟大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.

受到许多邪恶的威胁，尤其是叛国罪;但有一件事没有说：将遭受怯懦、懦弱或懦夫的恐惧。

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，" 你的意思是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，你不是胆小鬼。"