It would be tedious if given in the beadle's words: occupying, as it did, some twenty minutes in the telling; but the sum and substance of it was, that Oliver was a foundling, born of low and vicious parents.

如果用执事的话来说会很乏味：讲了大约 20 分钟；但总而言之，奥利弗是个弃儿，出身卑微恶毒的父母。