1·I thought you must be a humbug all along, from the conceited way you talked.
从你说话的自大神气来看,我一直觉得你是个骗子。
2·A worse humbug would be hard to meet.
比这个更坏的骗子恐怕没有了。
3·There is only one thing I ask in return for my help — such as it is. You must keep my secret and tell no one I am a humbug.
只有一件事情,我要请求人们帮助我,作为对我工作的报答——就是这样:你们必须严守我的秘密,不要去告诉什么人,说我是一个骗子。
4·Once more, and finally AS it seemed to me, I pronounced him in my heart, a humbug.
我再次地,也觉得是最后地在心里断定他是个骗子。
5·I have a great mind to put it into the fire to punish your atrocious humbug and hypocrisy.
为了对你这种万恶的骗子和伪君子实施惩戒,我倒很赞成把它一把火烧掉完事。
1·"I used the title I did," he added, "because I wanted to talk about [bull] without any [bull], so I didn't use 'humbug' or 'bunkum."'
“我坚持用了这个标题,”他补充道,“因为我想不带任何扯淡的谈论扯淡,所以我没用‘欺骗’或者‘废话’。”
2·All forms of pose , sham, learned nonsense, academic stupidity and social humbug are politely but effectively shown the door.
各种虚假的学术、愚蠢的理论和社会上的欺骗被礼貌和有效地拒于门外。