Insolvent tenants openly defied the collector of the waterrate from their ten-roomed strongholds, and existed for weeks without any visible means of procuring that necessary fluid.

无偿付能力房客，公然反抗收缴他居室要塞水费办事员，管看不出他有什么办法种生活所必需液体，可他已经继续生存好几个礼拜了。