The old cooper, eaten up with ambition, was looking, they said, for a peer of France, to whom an income of three hundred thousand francs would make all the past, present, and future casks of the Grandets acceptable.
那个老箍桶匠被野心吞噬,据说他在寻找一个法国贵族,三百多万法郎的收入能让这位贵族接受葛朗台家过去、现在和未来的所有酒桶。