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- 名down-at-heels pedant;a miserable poor scholar
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[wretched fellow] 旧称贫寒的读书
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不过尽管他现在仅仅是以一个租户的身分在这儿住了下来,彬格莱小姐还是非常愿意替他掌管家务,再说那位嫁了个穷措大的赫斯脱太太,每逢上弟弟这儿来作客,依旧象是到了自己家里一样。
but , though he was now only established as a tenant , Miss Bingley was by no means unwilling to preside at his table -- nor was Mrs. Hurst , who had married a man of more fashion than fortune , less disposed to consider his house as her home when it suited her .