In the course of this life I have had a great many encounters with a great many people who have been concerned with matters of consequence.
这样，在我的生活中，我跟许多严肃的人有过很多的接触。
I have lived a great deal among grown-ups.
我在大人们中间生活过很长时间。
I have seen them intimately, close at hand.And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.
我仔细地观察过他们，但这并没有使我对他们的看法有多大的改变。
