It cankered his heart to think he was confronted by the closest instance of a worse state of things than any he had assumed in the pleasant social philosophy and satire of his essays.

一想到他遇到了比他在愉快的社会哲学和讽刺文章中所假设的任何事情都更糟糕的最接近的事例，他的心就痛不欲生。

Mrs. Archer, who was fond of coining her social philosophy into axioms, had once said: " We all have our pet common people—" and though the phrase was a daring one, its truth was secretly admitted in many an exclusive bosom.

阿切尔夫人喜欢把她的社会哲学变成公理，她曾经说过：“我们都有我们的宠物平民——” 虽然这句话很大胆， 但它的真实性却在许多排外的人心中秘密承认。