Mr Raynor dreams of turning ordinary burghers into “Carnegies and Rockefellers”.

雷诺梦想着把普通公民变为“卡内基和洛克菲勒”。

But the burghers and garrison were soon on foot, and he was driven back into the house.

可是居民和驻军很快站稳了脚跟，把他赶到房子里。

No gentleman, nor even any burgher, who has stock, will submit to this degradation.

没有绅士，甚至任何有资产的市民， 都不会屈服于这种堕落。

The men-at-arms drink by a good fire, while the burgher bites his nails to buy them wine and wood.

士兵们在篝火旁喝酒，而市民则咬着指甲给他们买酒和木头。

The burghers naturally hated and feared the lords.

市民自然又恨又怕地主。

Whether such privileges had before been usually granted, along with the freedom of trade, to particular burghers, as individuals, I know not.

我不知道以前是否通常将这种特权连同贸易自由授予特定市民个人。

I wouldn't put it past the good burghers of the Conservative party and the government administration to come up with such a ploy.

我不会放过保守党和政府行政部门的好公民来想出这样的策略。

The king hated and feared them too; but though, perhaps, he might despise, he had no reason either to hate or fear the burghers.

国王又恨又怕他们。 但是，尽管他可能会鄙视， 但他没有理由憎恨或害怕市民。

The wealth of the burghers never failed to provoke their envy and indignation, and they plundered them upon every occasion without mercy or remorse.

市民们的财富总是会引起他们的嫉妒和愤慨， 他们每次都毫不留情地掠夺他们的财富。

A worthy citizen, Herman, and his tart beer was admirable, but that this beef-colored burgher should have fathered anything so poised and luminous as Fran was a miracle.

赫尔曼是一位值得尊敬的公民，他的酸啤酒令人钦佩，但这个牛肉色的市民竟然生出了像弗兰这样沉着冷静、光彩照人的东西，这真是一个奇迹。

The lords despised the burghers, whom they considered not only as a different order, but as a parcel of emancipated slaves, almost of a different species from themselves.

领主们鄙视市民，他们不仅将市民视为不同的阶级，而且将其视为一群获得解放的奴隶，几乎与他们属于不同的物种。

At first, the farm of the town was probably let to the burghers, in the same manner as it had been to other farmers, for a term of years only.

起初，镇上的农场可能像租给其他农民一样租给市民，租期只有几年。

By this time day was dawning, the whole population, soldiers and burghers, men, women, and children, were thronging about the little band of marauders, and assailing them with every weapon and every missile to be found.

此时黎明已经到来，所有人，包括驻军和市民，男人、女人和孩子，紧紧困住了这一小撮海盗，用各种武器和所有能找到的投掷物向他们攻击。

For the sake of an inferior pageantry of the same kind, his nobles dismiss their retainers, make their tenants independent, and become gradually themselves as insignificant as the greater part of the wealthy burghers in his dominions.

为了同类的低级盛况， 他的贵族解雇了他们的家臣， 让他们的佃户独立， 并逐渐变得与他领土上的大部分富裕市民一样微不足道。

He found her sitting at the breakfast-table, and the meal began almost in silence, the burghers walking past upon the pavement-or rather roadway, pavements being scarce here-which was two or three feet above the level of the parlour floor.

他发现她坐在早餐桌旁，这顿饭几乎是悄无声息地开始了，市民们在人行道上走过——或者更确切地说，马路上，这里很少有人行道——它比客厅地板高出两三英尺。

He slept deep and awoke to a slow mournful march passing his window. It was a long column of men in uniform, wearing the familiar helmet of 1914, thick men in frock coats and silk hats, burghers, aristocrats, plain men.

他睡得很沉，醒来时听到窗外传来一阵缓慢而悲伤的行军声。这是一长列穿着制服的人，戴着熟悉的 1914 年头盔，身着长礼服、头戴丝质帽子的粗壮男人、市民、贵族、普通人。

This tax, besides, is supposed to dishonour whoever is subject to it, and to degrade him below, not only the rank of a gentleman, but that of a burgher; and whoever rents the lands of another becomes subject to it.

此外，这种税收被认为会羞辱任何受此征税的人，并降低他的地位，不仅是绅士的地位，而且是市民的地位；谁租了别人的土地，谁就受制于它。

The merchants of London, indeed, have not yet generally become such magnificent lords as those of Cadiz and Lisbon; but neither are they in general such attetitive and parsimonious burghers as those of Amsterdam.

的确，伦敦的商人还没有普遍成为像加的斯和里斯本的商人那样显赫的领主；但总体而言，他们也不像阿姆斯特丹的市民那样勤俭节约。