These he peddles still, prompting God and disgracing man, bearing for fruit his brain only, like the nut its kernel.
他还在推销头脑,赞扬上帝,斥责世人,只有头脑是他的果实,像坚果里面的果肉一样。
Oh, "said the little fox , "Well, we needn't learn these disgracing and venturesome tricks if we try to be honest persons, is it right?
噢,“小狐狸说,“那么,做个正直的人不就用不着去学这些丢人,冒险的本领了吗?。
His family was unimpressed: his mother wept at his decision to "sell his soul to foreign devils", while an uncle ordered him to change his name, to avoid further disgracing the clan.
对此,他的家庭乃至整个家族深感不满:其母对他决定去“把灵魂卖给洋鬼子”哀痛不已,而他的一位叔叔则要求他改名,免得辱没了家族的名声。
His behaviour to myself has been scandalous; but I verily believe I could forgive him any thing and every thing, rather than his disappointing the hopes and disgracing the memory of his father.
他对待我的行为真是恶劣万分;可是我千真万确地相信,我一切都能原谅他,只是不能容忍他辜负他先人的厚望,辱没他先人的名声。
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in disgrace
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