Could I have achieved so much philosophy if, as I ever feared, the closing years of my life had passed in helpless indigence?

如果像我直担心的那样， 我生命的最后几年是在无助的贫困中度过的， 我还能取得如此多的哲学成就吗？

For one very rich man, there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many.

对于常富有的来说， 至少必须有五百穷， 少数的富裕意味着多数的贫困。

Accustomed to wealth and ease, ill could my Husband support the transition to distress and indigence. He looked back with repining to the comforts which He once enjoyed.

惯于富贵安逸，夫君难扶转困苦。祂回顾过去，痛恨祂曾经享受的舒适。

The inferior ranks of people no longer looked upon that order as they had done before; as the comforters of their distress, and the relievers of their indigence.

下不再像以前那样看待这秩序；安慰他们的苦难，解除他们的困苦。

It is a fine thing, reader, to be lifted in a moment from indigence to wealth—a very fine thing; but not a matter one can comprehend, or consequently enjoy, all at once.

读者，瞬间脱贫致富是件好事——件常好的事；但不是可以下子理解或因此享受的事情。

Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, deprived of their situations, were gradually reduced to great indigence and misery, and finally became paupers in that very same workhouse in which they had once lorded it over others.

邦布尔夫妇失去了他们的地位，逐渐沦为极度贫困和悲惨的境地，最后在他们曾经高高在上的济贫院里沦为乞丐。

I was rich enough now—yet poor to hideous indigence: a nature the most gross, impure, depraved I ever saw, was associated with mine, and called by the law and by society a part of me.

我现在已经足够富有了——但还是贫穷到可怕的贫困：种我见过的最粗俗、最不纯洁、最堕落的天性，与我的天性相关，法律和社会称它为我的部分。