I told you that the travelling tradesman does not bear a very high reputation in England; and notwithstanding his apparent simplicity, this fellow may turn out to be an arrant cheat.

我告诉过你， 旅行商在英国名声并不高； 尽管他表面上看起来很简单， 但这个可能会成为一个彻头彻尾。

Does it explain my astonishment of the other day when Z, most humane, most modest of men, taking up some book by Rebecca West and reading a passage in it, exclaimed, 'The arrant feminist!

这是否解释了前几天 Z， 最仁慈、最谦虚，拿起丽贝卡·韦斯特 (Rebecca West) 一本书， 读了其中一段话，惊呼道：‘女权主义者！

Men, of course, are not snobs, I continued, carefully eschewing 'the arrant feminism' of Miss Rebecca West; but they appreciate with sympathy for the most part the efforts of a countess to write verse.

男，当然，不是势利小，我继续说，小心翼翼地避开丽贝卡·韦斯特小姐“彻头彻尾女权主义” ；但他们大多对一位伯爵夫为写诗所做努力表示赞赏。

" I have worked, I do work, " I cried impetuously, as though he were my judge and I required vindication, and at the same time very much aware of my arrant idiocy in discussing the subject at all.

" 我工作，我干过工作。" 我冲动起来，大叫，仿佛他是法官，我需要申辩。 同时我也强烈地意识到由我自己来讨论这个问题奇笨无比。