And from what I heard, Joseph contributed much to his deterioration, by a narrow-minded partiality which prompted him to flatter and pet him, as a boy, because he was the head of the old family.
据我所听到的,他之所以变坏,约瑟夫出力不少,出于一种狭隘的偏爱,约瑟夫在他还是小孩的就捧他,娇惯他,因为他是这古老家庭的主人。