" There, you see! " Fanny was triumphant. " That shows what he stands for. The strictest conventionality."
“对了,你看,”范尼很得意,“那就表示了所坚持的东西。最严格的传统。”
The country in which he grew up was rough and, so far as the conventionalities go, uncivilized; the family homestead was little more than a log cabin; and existence meant a continual struggle with a not particularly fruitful soil.
长大的国家是粗野的,就传统而言,是不开化的。家庭宅基地只不过是一间小木屋。生存意味着与一块并不特别肥沃的土地进行持续的斗争。