The task is particularly tricky for publicans.

这项任务对酒吧老板来说特别棘手。

" I don't know about that, " he said. " What about the publicans and sinners" ?

" 这我倒不清楚，" 他说。 " 说说税吏和罪人，怎么样？"

" They are rather fond of one another and of their child, seemingly, " continued the publican.

“他们似乎很喜欢彼此，很喜欢他们的孩子，”酒馆老板继续说道。

I had always thought the fortnightly meetings of the Hailsbury Triathlon Terrors must be a publican's worst nightmare.

我一直认为每两周行一次的黑尔斯伯里铁人三项恐怖大会一定是酒馆老板最可怕的噩梦。

Their manners are more re publican; and their governments, those of three of the provinces of New England in particular, have hitherto been more republican too.

他们的共和；他们的政府，尤其是新英格兰三个省的政府，迄今为共和。

Rome's publicani, or publicans, were government contractors who built the republic's roads, temples, aqueducts and the like, provided the empire's supply chains—and milked its subjects for taxes.

罗马的 publicani 或 publicans 是政府承包商， 他们修建了共和国的道路、寺庙、渡槽等，提供了帝国的供应链——并榨取其臣民的税收。

We believe this is a delight direction although the majority of Malawi are under still homophobic and they feel that gay communities have no rights and no space in the publican life.

尽管大部分马维拉人仍然厌恶同性恋，认为同性恋群体没有任何进行公众生活的权力和空间，但我们相信这代表了一个让人喜悦的方向。

Hence Mr. Bulstrode's close attention was not agreeable to the publicans and sinners in Middlemarch; it was attributed by some to his being a Pharisee, and by others to his being Evangelical.

因此，米德尔马契的税吏和罪人并不喜欢布尔斯特罗德先生的密切关注； 一些人将其归因于他是法利赛人， 而另一些人则归因于他是福音派信徒。

Here a red-nosed publican shouting the praises of his vats and there a temperance lecturer at 50 pounds a night; here a judge and there a swindler; here a priest and there a gambler.

这里有一个红鼻子的酒馆老板大声赞美他的酒桶，那里有一个节制讲师，每晚 50 英镑；这里是法官，那里是骗子；这里是牧师，那里是赌徒。

Give me to feel a need of His continual Saviorhood, and cry with Job, I am vile, with Peter, I perish, with the publican, be merciful to me, a sinner, subduing me the love of sin.

让我感到需要他持续的救恩，与约伯一起呼喊， 我是卑鄙的， 与彼得一起呼喊，我灭亡，与税吏一起呼喊， 怜悯我这个罪人，征服我对罪的热爱。

The philosopher dies sententiously — the pharisee ostentatiously — the simple-hearted humbly — the poor idiot blindly, as the sparrow falls to the ground; the philosopher and idiot, publican and pharisee, all eat after the same fashion — given an equally good digestion.

哲学家死得有理有据——法利赛人死得很浮夸——头脑简单的人死得谦虚——可怜的白痴盲目地死去， 就像麻雀掉在地上一样； 哲学家和白痴， 税吏和法利赛人， 都以同样的方式进食——前提是消化得同样好。