Did he dare? Dare to profane with his unworthiest hand that…

他敢于用自己最卑贱的手指去亵渎… … 吗？

By heaven! I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection.

上帝啊！我宁愿把自己一滴滴心血熔铸成钱币，也不愿从农人粗硬的手里榨取他们那卑贱污秽的铜板。

It was normal at first-cheap, silly, false.

一开始十分正常——卑贱、愚蠢、虚假。

Non. They see an illusion. A cheap illusion.

不 他们看到的只是幻像 卑贱的幻像。

" But was not she a very low woman" ?

" 可她不是一位出身卑贱的女人吗？"

It designates the dark, glutinous substance which is scraped off the back of the Greenland or right whale, and much of which covers the decks of those inferior souls who hunt that ignoble Leviathan.

它指的是那种黑色的胶状物质，是从格陵兰鲸或露脊鲸的背上刮下来的，捕猎这种卑贱海兽的劣等人物的甲板上尽是这种东西。

I appreciate that. And I just hope that this scholarship can rescue your child from the subpar education and menial life of an engineer.

我领情了，而且我只是希望这份奖学金可以拯救你的孩子免遭工程师的次等教育与卑贱生活的悲惨命运。

Still, he could not help feeling that this elder traveler was not an ordinary person, although he happened to be dressed so humbly.

尽管如此，菲利蒙还是禁不住感到这个年龄一点儿的旅行者不是一个普通人，虽然凑巧他的穿着看起来如此卑贱。

In slave days, these lowly blacks had been despised by the house negroes and yard negroes as creatures of small worth.

制时代，这些卑贱的黑人一直是被干家务活和庭园活的黑人所看不起的，他们被看成不中用的家伙。

On Egdon, coldest and meanest kisses were at famine prices, and where was a mouth matching hers to be found?

埃格敦荒原，即便最冰冷、最卑贱的亲吻也是高价难求，再说，上哪儿才能找到配得上她的双唇呢？

They already have the arrogance of their kind! So we were to do your dirty work, were we, human girl?

他们已经像他们的同类一样傲慢了！这么说，我们刚才为你们做了一件卑贱的事，是不是，人类女孩？

I know this will break your heart, but believe me, I'm not good enough for you! I'm too wicked.

我知道这会伤透你的心，但相信我，我配不上你！我太卑贱了。

Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song, Darkening thy power to lend base subjects light?

你徒费狂放的诗情于陈词滥调，让你的诗威屈尊于卑贱的题材。

Too base of thee to be remembered.

太卑贱了，其不配你口诵心记。

Or on my frailties why are frailer spies, Which in their wills count bad what I think good?

为什么更脆弱的人要窥视我的弱点，我以为善者他们却恣意称为卑贱？

Because the Apostle Paul calls the law beggarly elements.

因为使徒保罗称律法为卑贱之物。

In antiquity, menial work was for slaves and other subordinates.

古代，卑贱的工作是和其他下属的职责。

He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers; he had fallen from all the height and pomp of beadleship, to the lowest depth of the most snubbed hen-peckery.

他他们眼中是卑贱的；他穷人面前失去了种姓和地位。他已经从执政官职位的所有高度和浮华跌落到最冷落的啄木鸟的最低深度。

Some of them acquired the property of landed estates, which they held by some base or ignoble tenure, sometimes under the king, and sometimes under some other great lord, like the ancient copy-holders of England.

他们中的一些人获得了地产的财产， 他们以某种卑贱的或不光彩的保有权持有这些财产， 有时是国王的统治下， 有时是其他某个领主的统治下， 就像古代英格兰的抄写员一样。

Women, it is true, obtaining power by unjust means, by practising or fostering vice, evidently lose the rank which reason would assign them, and they become either abject slaves or capricious tyrants.

诚然，妇女通过不正当手段，通过实践或助长恶习获得权力，显然失去了理智赋予她们的地位，她们要么成为卑贱的，要么成为反复无常的暴君。