“Wicked and cruel boy!” I said. “You are like a mur-derer — you are like a slave-driver — you are like the Ro-man emperors!”
“ 你这残酷的坏孩子！”我说，“你像个杀人犯……你像个奴隶监工……你就像那些罗马暴君！”
I had read Goldsmith's History of Rome, and had formed my opinion of Nero, Galigula, etc. Also I had drawn parallels in silence, which I never thought thus to have declared aloud.
我读过哥尔斯密的《罗马史》，对尼禄、卡利古拉等人物已经有了我自己的看法，而且暗暗作过类比，但从来没想到竟会这样公开地说出来。
“What! what!” he cried. “Did she say that to me? Did you hear her, Eliza and Georgiana? Won't I tell mama? but first — ”
“什么！什么！”他嚷了起来，“她竟敢对我说这样的话？你们听见了吧， 伊丽莎和乔治娜？我不该去告诉妈妈吗？不过我先要……”
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