What the government does is it deputizes 25,000 men of property.

政府任命了25000个有钱人。

Many of the emigrants were men of wealth, as the old lists show, and all of them, with few exceptions, were men of property and good standing.

正如旧名单所示， 许多移民都是有钱人，而且除了少数例外， 他们所有人都是有钱人和声望高的人。

Even the invisible powers, he thought, were likely to be soothed by a bland parenthesis here and there — coming from a man of property, who might have been as impious as others.

他认为，即使是无形的力量，也可能会被这里那里温和的括号所缓和——来自一个可能和其他人一样不虔诚的有钱人。