There was Mr Houghton. He was always telling me to think.

有一位霍顿先生，他总是教导我要思考。

Last year, Houghton University in Houghton, N.Y., declared itself the best-priced Christian college in the nation with its tuition cut.

去年，位于纽约州霍顿市的霍顿学院宣称在削减学费后，自己是全美学费最合理的基督教大学。

Mr Houghton was given to high-minded monologues about the good life, sexless and full of duty.

霍顿先生非常喜欢一人唱高调，将好生活、清心寡欲和尽职尽责常挂在嘴边。

As part of her last wishes, she helped create the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center at Bryn Mawr College.

她最后的遗愿是在布尔茅尔学院帮助创建赫本中心。

If either happened to be prominent in current affairs, no argument could make Mr Houghton think well of it.

如果它们当中的某一个国家碰巧成为新闻焦点，任凭你跟他怎么争都无法让霍顿先生对这一国家产生好感。

She bore a definite resemblance to the Lily Houghton-Miller I had met.

她和我见过的莉莉·霍顿-米勒长得很像。

A young navy officer got as red-necked as Mr Houghton when I proposed a world without any battleships in it.

当我提议应该建立一个没有军舰的世界时，以为年轻的海军军官竟然像霍顿先生一样怒不可遏。

But Mr Houghton had fought in the First World War alongside Americans and French, and had come to a settled detestation of both countries.

霍顿先生曾参加过第一次世界大战，与美国和法国士兵共同参与战斗，但他却对这两个国家产生了一种无法改变的憎恶。

But I was growing toward adolescence and had to admit that Mr Houghton was not the only one with an irresistible spring in his neck.

但是，当我进入青春期，我不得不承认霍顿先生并非唯一一位脖子被不可抗拒的弹簧所控制的人。

The report, by John Houghton of Victoria University in Australia and Graham Vickery of the OECD, makes heavy reading for publishers who have, so far, made handsome profits.

澳大利亚维多利亚大学的 John Houghton 和经合组织的 Graham Vickery联合完成这一报告，内容使目前为止收入丰厚的出版商们感到汗颜。

SELF-CULTIVATION IN ENGLISH, by George Herbert Palmer, published 1909 by the Houghton Mifflin Company of Boston as one of the " Riverside Education Monographs" .

乔治·赫伯特·帕尔默 (George Herbert Palmer) 着的《英语自我修养》(SELF-CULTIVATION IN ENGLISH)，作为“河滨教育专着”之一由波士顿霍顿·米夫林公司 (Houghton Mifflin Company) 于 1909 年出版。

But if not, and if drinking were in fact ruinous to health-and Mr Houghton was ruined, there was no doubt about that-why was he always talking about the clean life and the virtues of fresh air?

若不是这样，如果喝酒的确伤身体——毫无疑问，霍顿的身体健康已经受到了损害——那他为什么还总在高谈阔论什么简洁朴素的生活和新鲜空气的好处呢？