Gulliver's Travels (A Voyage to Brobdingnag) - Jonathan Swift

chancery衡平法院, 大法官法庭

vexatious 引起煩惱的;令人生氣的;使人困惑的

quarrelsome 喜歡爭吵的;動輒吵架的

pick up at a venture in the street

vend出售;販賣

cordial甘露酒,甜香酒; 【英】水果果汁

nobility and gentry

gaming 賭博

lay down放下<-> taken up

avarice貪婪,貪慾

perfidiousness 不誠實的;背信棄義的

recapitulate扼要重述;概括

You have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator.

pervert誤用,濫用; confound 混淆;弄錯; elude (巧妙地)逃避,躲避 the laws

dispose to 使傾向於,使有意於

with much pains wringed使痛苦,使苦惱 and extorted 侵佔 from you

pernicious壞的,邪惡的

vindication證明無罪(或正確);辯護

laudable值得讚賞的

Dionysius Halicarnassensis - Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Dionysios son of Alexandros, of Halikarnassos, c. 60 BC–after 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus. --- Antique of Rome

I would hide the frailties and deformities of my political mother, and place her virtues and beauties in the most advantageous light. (like what Dionysisus Halicarnassensis did in the book Antique of Rome (?))

In hopes to ingratiate使得到...歡心;迎合 myself farther into his Majesty's favour

grovel卑躬屈膝;屈服

entertain 懷著,抱著;持有(信心等) such inhuman ideas

contriver發明者,創製者,籌劃者

in privy 祕密參與的,知情的 to such a secret

procures veneration尊敬

let slip an opportunity put into his hands

Machiavelli's The Prince(1513)
Hobbes's Leviathan (1651)

abominate 厭惡,痛恨 and despise

mercurial敏捷的;精明的

to write a comment upon any law, is a capital crime

inclemency天氣險惡;氣候嚴酷

abortive發育不全的