Company executives may be boring Gradgrinds, bankers the spawn of the devil and politicians crooks and liars.

企业的高管们也许像令人厌的葛擂梗（Gradgrinds，译者注：狄更斯小说《艰难时世》中的人物），是万恶之源的银行家和瞒天过海的政治家。

Everything? Well, I suppose so. The little Gradgrinds had cabinets in various departments of science too.

一切？好吧，我想是的。 Gradgrinds 小兄弟在各个科学系也有柜子。

Is it possible, I wonder, that there was any analogy between the case of the Coketown population and the case of the little Gradgrinds?

我想知道，在焦煤镇人口的情况和小 Gradgrinds 的情况之间是否有任何类比？

Adam Smith and Malthus, two younger Gradgrinds, were out at lecture in custody; and little Jane, after manufacturing a good deal of moist pipe-clay on her face with slate-pencil and tears, had fallen asleep over vulgar fractions.

亚当·斯密和马尔萨斯，两位年轻的葛雷格林德，被拘留在外面听课。小简用石笔和泪水在脸上抹了很多湿漉漉的烟斗泥之后，就因为粗俗的分数睡着了。