" It's very good of a busy and successful man like you to come all this way to see an old fogey" .

" 你这样一个功成名就忙人大老远地来看我这么一个老古董，真是太好了。"

And, by George, well I may not; for it would never do for a staid fogey a dozen years older to stand upon such a trifle as that'.

而且，乔治，我可能；为对于一个年十二岁古板人来说，站在这样小事上是绝做。

'He may be as virtuous as his prototype Timothy; but he's an opinionated old fogey all the same, ' said St. Cleeve petulantly.

“他可能和他原型蒂莫西一样贤惠； “但他仍然是个己见老顽，”圣克利夫暴躁地说。

Apart from her being what she is, of course, a luxury for a fogey like me, it will set me right in the eyes of the clergy and orthodox laity, who have never forgiven me for letting her go.

当然，除了她现在样子，对于像我这样己见人来说是一种奢侈，这将使我在神职人员和正统俗人眼中处于正确位置，他们永远原谅我让她离开。