侯爵的身份

2High vaulted rooms with cool uncarpeted floors, great dogs upon the hearths for the burning of wood in winter time, and all luxuries befitting the state of a marquis in a luxurious age and country.

原译文：高拱顶的房间内，没铺地毯的地板显得凉爽，几条大狗趴在冬天烧木柴的几个壁炉台上，陈设着在一个奢侈时代和国家里适合于侯爵身份的一切奢侈品。

Consequently, with the advent of the title "F rst", a new class of nobility was created whose status clearly ranked above that of those newly created counts and marquesses, but ranked just under the title of duke.

因此。随着F rst头衔的出现，一个新的贵族阶层诞生了。它的身份排位在那些新封的伯爵和侯爵之上，而只是低于公爵这个头衔。

Bibot would look at his prey as a cat looks upon the mouse, play with him, sometimes for quite a quarter of an hour, pretend to be hoodwinked by the disguise, by the wigs and other bits of theatrical make-up which hid the identity of a ci-devant noble marquise or count.

比伯特盯着他的猎物如同猫盯着老鼠，玩弄它，有时甚至逗玩一刻之久，而后假装被贵族的伪装糊弄，被假发糊弄，被其他隐藏前贵族们侯爵伯爵真实身份的戏剧演出化装糊弄。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。