They accused her of " spreading disaffection" .
他们指责其“散布不满情绪”。
It may have been a flash of honesty in him; or mere prudential policy which, under the circumstance, imperiously forbade the slightest symptom of open disaffection, however transient, in the important chief officer of his ship.
也许是他忽发善念,或者仅仅是慎重的策略而已,在这种情况下,绝对不要让船上举足轻重的高级水手公开显露一丝一毫不满的迹象,再怎么短暂也不行。