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Why, to be sure, old Humphrey, you are as honest as a—pshaw! the parson means to palaver us;
這話是怎么說的，老亨弗萊，你還誠實，哼！教區牧師的話是恭維我們呢；
but, to return to my position, I tell you I don't like your flat contradiction.
別忘了你的身份，明確告訴你我不喜歡你的言不由衷。
Yes, you do. I tell you I don't. I only love to hear men's arguments. I hate their flummery.
您其實喜歡的。告訴你吧，我不喜歡。我只是樂意聽別人爭論。我討厭他們的甜言蜜語。
What do you call flummery? Flattery, blockhead! a dish too often served up by paltry poor men to paltry rich ones.
您指的甜言蜜語是？奉承啊，榆木腦袋！總給微不足道的窮人吃的飯，是不能端給富人的。
I never serve it up to you. No, you give me a dish of a different description.
我可從沒有把不好吃的飯端給您啊。不，你端給我的可是完全不同的飯菜。
Hem! what is it? Sauerkraut, you old crab. I have held you a stout tug at argument this many a year.
哼！那是什么？泡菜啊，你這個老東西。多年來我一直在辯論中讓著您的。
And yet I could never teach you a syllogism. Now mind, when a poor man assents to what a rich man says, I suspect he means to flatter him;
我從未教過你三段論。你記住，當窮人贊同富人說的話時，我懷疑他的用意是向他獻媚；
now I am rich, and hate flattery. Ergo—when a poor man subscribes to my opinion, I hate him.
現在，我是富人，因此我討厭奉承。所以當一個窮人同意我的看法時，我就討厭他。
That's wrong. Very well, negatur, now prove it. Put the case then, I am a poor man.
您錯了。非常好，現在你就給我證明相反的命題。就以這個三段論來說，我是個窮人。
You aren't, you scoundrel. You know you shall never want while I have a shilling.
你不是，你這個壞蛋。當我只有一個先令時，你絕對不會要的。
