sometimes with the local priest (who was usually as poor as his parishioners), sometimes with shepherds or cheese-makers.

有时同当地牧师 （他通常和他的教民一样穷）住在一起，有时同牧羊人或制乳酪的人住在一起。

unlike, say, a buyer of goods, cannot complain that the law is loaded against him.

但是储户不能像货物的买主那样来抱怨法律对自己不利。

Men accustomed to struggling for survival against the elements and Indians were bewildered by politicians, bankers and businessmen, and unhorsed by fences, laws and alien taboos.

习惯与大自然和印第安人作斗争以求生存的拓荒者被政客、银行家和商人搞得晕头转向，最后被圈地、尖律我外来的清规戒律所击败。

The lower gun-ports were now below water and the inrush sealed the ship's fate.

下层炮眼已淹没在水里，涌进船舱的水给瓦萨号带来了难以逃脱的厄运。

later, we shall undergo a progressive loss of our vigour and resistance which, though imperceptible at first,

再迟一些，我们就要经历生命力和抵抗力逐步衰退的过程。虽然这个过程起初难以觉察，

and that their rims are clean and dry.

瓶口清洁干燥。