Algernon. What about your brother? What about the profligate Ernest?
阿尔吉侬。兄弟怎么了?挥霍无度的欧内斯特呢?
He proposed to call witnesses to show how the prisoner, a profligate and spendthrift, had been at the end of his financial tether, and had also been carrying on an intrigue with a certain Mrs. Raikes, a neighbouring farmer's wife.
他提议传唤证人来证明这个挥霍无度、挥霍无度的囚犯是如何在经济拮据的情况下陷入困境的,并且还直在与附近位农民的妻子雷克斯太太勾心斗角。