1.The clerks and ryots, however, seemed duly impressed, and likewise envious, as though deploring their parents' omission to endow them with so splendid a means of appealing to the Zamindar.

1.然而，场的执事和农民却对此似深刻，他们似有些嫉妒，仿佛他们的父母没有赋予他们这种向地主请愿的卓越口才。