读 the moon and sixpence
gone to the dogs: 毁灭，堕落。【Poor devil, he's gone to the dogs altogether.】
take ... for granted: 认为很正常，认为理所当然。【To these people, native and European, he was a queer fish, but they were used to queer fish, and they took him for granted; the world was full of odd persons, who did odd things; and perhaps they knew that a man is not what he wants to be, but what he must be.】
