2018-10-05

His decent reticence is branded as hypocrisy, his circumlocutions are roundly called lies, and his silence is vilified as treachery.

reticence 缄默

be branded as 被丑化为

circumlocution 迂回的说法

vilify  vt.诋毁 be vilified as

treachery n.背叛


And on the strength of peccadillos reprehensible in an author, but excusable in a son, the Anglo-Saxon race is accused of prudishness, humbug, pretentiousness, deceit, cunning, and bad cooking.

peccadillo  n.过失

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