Depend upon it we are conspicuous objects against the sky to them.

依靠它，我们对他们来说是天空中显眼的物体。

As they produced no visible effect on the object against whom they were discharged, however, he resorted to more tangible arguments.

然而，由于它们对它们所针对的对象没有产生明显的影响，因此他求助于更具体的论据。

But those objects against which their envy seems principally directed, are the vices of the younger sort and the deaths of the old.

但他们嫉妒的对象似乎主要是年轻人的恶习和老年人的死亡。