谨小慎微的

But I am persuaded, that many of my brethren, particularly those who are ignorantly in league with slave-holders or tyrants, who acquire their daily bread by the blood and sweat of their more ignorant brethren--and not a few of those too, who are too ignorant to see an inch beyond their noses, will rise up and call me cursed--Yea, the jealous ones among us will perhaps use more abject subtlety, by affirming that this work is not worth perusing, that we are well situated, and there is no use in trying to better our condition, for we cannot.

也有人劝我说，我的许多同胞，特别是那些愚昧地与奴隶主和恶霸们同穿一条裤子的人，那些靠比他们更愚昧的同胞们的血汗辛劳而混口饭吃的人──其中确实有不少人愚昧得只顾眼前利益──他们会一哄而起诅咒我的。是的，我们中的谨小慎微者有可能会机关算尽地断言我的努力是徒劳的；他们会说我们的境况并不坏，没有必要加以改善，因爲我们做不到。

Left-brained bosses—not the sort of cautious bureaucrat likely to appeal to the governments now overseeing the financial system—are just what is needed.

现在正需要左脑型的经营者——而不是如目前监控金融系统的政府所偏好的，谨小慎微因循守旧的经营者。

Many criticise the government for its caution, and more recently for sleaze

有很多批评直指政府的谨小慎微，最近则更多地指向了它的腐败（一次关于博彩业正侵蚀着这个国家的媒体道德的游说丑闻。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失