Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded --- Samuel Richardson (1740)

1.ruminate反覆思考2.kinsman(男性)家屬,(男)親屬[C]3.hold a grudge against懷恨在心4.bad time, as u said, are much altered with me; and i have been of late so much honoured with better company, that i can't stoop to yours.5.strumpet婊子,妓女6.you are perfectly what i wish7."Sir, am i licensed to intrude upon you?" "...you have not only a right to join me, but you do me a very acceptable favour at the same time."8.caprice多變;反覆無常9.What can the difference between a beggar's son married by a lady, or a beggar's daughter made a gentleman's wife? The difference is, a man ennobles the woman he takes, be she who she will; and adopts her into his own rank, be it what it will; but a woman, thought ever so nobly born, debases herself by a mean marriage and descends her own rank to his she stoops to. ... When the royal family of Stuart allied itself into the low family of Hyde, (comparatively low, I mean), did anybody scruple to call the lady, Royal Highness, and Duchess of York? And did anybody think her daughters, the late Queen Mary and Anne, less royal for that?10.pernicious 壞的,邪惡的11."for I am poor in everything but will."12.funk畏縮: "if you funk this, you'll funk every battle all your life. Now or never."13.for me to know the worst, when the worst comes.14.dueler決鬥者[C]15.profligate放蕩者16.I could not behave worse than you have done.17.sordid卑鄙的,下賤的18.palliation緩和;減輕; 辯解;掩飾 (强詞奪理)19.egregious非常的;震驚的;極壞的: my brother already turned Puritan.20.iniquity 極度的不公正;邪惡,罪惡21.to owna fault is some reparation.22.whist (類似橋牌的)惠斯特牌戲23.whig vs tory24.knave (紙牌中的)傑克(jack)25.odious 可憎的,可惡的,令人作嘔的26.smite懲罰27.execrations詛咒28.ignominious可恥的(shameful/causing disgrace)29.agglutinating(使)接合;(使)凝集