He had worked his stony way into Her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council's Schedule B, and had taken the bloom off the higher branches of mathematics and physical science, French, German, Latin, and Greek.

他以顽强的方式进入了女王陛下最尊贵的枢密院的附表 B，并从数学和物理科学、法语、德语、拉丁语和希腊语的高级分支中脱颖而出。