六级强化长难句翻译（22）

　　107. It has the poorest millionaires. the littlest great men, the haughtiest beggars, the plainest beauties, the lowest skyscrapers, the dolefulest pleasures of any town I ever saw.

　　[参考译文]这座城市（指纽约）里有的是最贫穷的百万富翁，最矮小的伟人，最目空一切的乞丐，最普通的美女，最低矮的摩天大楼，和最令人悲哀的欢乐，和我所见到过的任何城市相比，都有过之而无不及。

　　108. The idea of political and social equality, which we saw coming into the world as an extreme and almost incredible idea in the age of emperors and lords, was later asserted by bourgeois democracy, but never put into practice before the dawn of socialist system.

　　[参考译文]我们知道，政治平等和社会平等的思想来到世上，在帝王时代被视为过激的，难以置信的思想，后来被资产阶级民主政治加以肯定，不过在社会主义制度来临之前，从来就没有成为事实。

　　109. A man who is always going to law against his neighbours is not likely to pay off his debts. Nor can a man pay off his debt if he is kind-hearted enough to lend money to his sister who has married a poor man and has eight babies.

　　[参考译文]一个人要是动不动就和街坊打官司，那就不大可能还清债务，一个人要是心肠很好，爱把钱借给嫁了穷鬼，又生了八个孩子的妹妹也是不可能还清债务的。

　　110. Notwithstanding Miss Pross denial of her own imagination, there was a perception of the pain of being monotonously haunted by one sad idea, in her repetition of the phrase, walking up and down, which testified to her possessing such a thing.

　　[参考译文]尽管普洛士小姐不承认自己有想象力，但当她再说走来走去时，她是觉察了那种无休止的，被一种哀伤的念头折磨的痛苦景象，这证明她具有这种能力。