" Come on, " Edwin pleaded. But Ruud was at the end of his tether.

“拜托了，”埃德温恳求道。但鲁德已经走到了尽头。

Come now, Ned my friend, Conseil asked, how would you answer master's objection? I refuse to believe that an American is at the end of his tether.

好吧，尼德·兰，康塞尔问，您怎样回敬先生的反对意见呢？我相信一个美洲人是不会弄到束手无策的！

He proposed to call witnesses to show how the prisoner, a profligate and spendthrift, had been at the end of his financial tether, and had also been carrying on an intrigue with a certain Mrs. Raikes, a neighbouring farmer's wife.

他提议传唤证人来证明这个挥霍无度、挥霍无度的囚犯是如何在经济拮据的情况下陷入困境的，并且还一直在与附近一位农民的妻子雷克斯太太勾心斗角。