The clerk then felt the lowliness of his position; he longed for epaulettes, crosses, titles. All that would please her—he gathered that from her spendthrift habits.

于生自惭形秽了。 他也羡慕肩章、勋章、头衔。 她当然喜欢这一套：看她花起钱来大手大脚，不就一目了然了吗？

He has used his little time of freedom to cut loose, to escape for the moment the lowliness and the poverty and the puzzle of living.

他利用自己为数不多的自由时间摆脱束缚，暂时逃离卑微、贫穷和生活的困惑。

Then Dinah told how the good news had been brought, and how the mind of God towards the poor had been made manifest in the life of Jesus, dwelling on its lowliness and its acts of mercy.

然后底了好消息如何传来的，以及上帝对穷人的心意如何在耶稣的生活中体现出来的，并详了耶稣的谦卑和怜悯的行为。