That indestructible, inward effrontery in the meagre fellow was what made men so down on Michaelis. His very presence was an affront to a man of society, cloak it as he might in an assumed good manner.

• 蔑克里斯这种不可毁灭的内在的厚颜无耻,便是使男子们憎恶他的原因。只要他一出现,不管他装得多么斯文得体,上流人便要引以为耻了。