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rascality n.罪惡勾當;無賴行為;流氓行為[習氣]。

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The minister related many a touching incident in the lives of the departed , too , which illustrated their sweet , generous natures , and the people could easily see , now , how noble and beautiful those episodes were , and remembered with grief that at the time they occurred they had seemed rank rascalities , well deserving of the cowhide 牧師還講述了這幾個孩子生前的一些感人事跡,他們天真可愛,慷慨大方。人們現在一眼就看出他們那時的行為是多么地高尚,令人贊美。可當時這些卻被認為是地道的流氓行為,人們恨不得用鞭子抽這些孩子。

But i soon give up that notion for two things : she d be mad and disgusted at his rascality and ungratefulness for leaving her , and so she d sell him straight down the river again ; and if she didn t , everybody naturally despises an ungrateful nigger , and they d make jim feel it all the time , and so he d feel ornery and disgraced 她準定會發火,又氣又恨,認為他不該如此忘恩負義,竟然從她那兒逃跑。這樣,她會干脆把他賣掉,再一次把他賣到下游去。如果她不是這么干,大伙兒自然會一個個都瞧不起忘恩負義的黑奴,他們勢必會叫杰姆時時刻刻意識到這一點,搞得他狼狽不堪無地自容。