They were tired of being treated “habitually and consistently as unreasoning cattle”.
因为他们已经受够了直被人当作乱跑的样随意驱赶。
Victorian parents believed that they kept their dignity by retreating behind an unreasoning authoritarian attitude in fact they did nothing of the kind, but children were then too cowed to let them know how they really felt.
维多利亚时代的父母认为,他们可靠无理的权威气派来维护自己的尊严,实际上那是根本不行的,孩子们只不过被吓得不敢让父母知道自己的想法罢了。
As he looked down at Gemma, smiling with half-shut eyes, in the subtle, sphinx-like way that gave him the look of a Leonardo da Vinci portrait, the instinctive distrust with which he inspired her deepened into a sense of unreasoning fear.
当他低头看着杰玛,半闭着眼睛微笑时,他以种微妙的、斯芬克斯般的方式使他看起来像列奥纳多·达·芬奇的肖像,他激发她的本能的不信任感加深了种莫名的恐惧感。