2.How could Melly have been so — so — Well, there was no word for Melanie's action in taking in this old ruffian and not telling her friends he was a jailbird.
3.You say your father was a con man, an occasional fantasist, an occasional jailbird, a crisis addict, a performance addict, a delusional enchanter who wrecked a lot of people's lives.
4.So very short. At the crucial point the Trust President is on the stand, a potential criminal needing but one push to be a jailbird, scorned by the upright for leagues around. Let him be acquitted—and in a year all is forgotten.
所以很短。在关键时刻,Trust President 出庭作证,一名潜在的罪犯只需要轻轻一推就可以为一名囚犯,受到周围联盟正直人士的蔑视。让他被罪释放——一年之内,一切都将被遗忘。机翻