Regarding themselves as Middlemarch institutions, they were ready to combine against all innovators, and against non-professionals given to interference.

他们将自己视为 Middlemarch 机构， 准备联合起来反对所有创新者， 反对非专业人士的干涉。

Hay thought England must be brought first into the combine; but at that time Germany, Russia, and France were all combining against England, and the Boer War helped them.

海伊认为英格兰必须首先加入联合军。但当时德国、俄罗斯和法国都在联合起来反对英国，而布尔战争帮助了他们。