Thousands of his compeers could talk much better than he, at any time.

在任何候， 成千上万同龄人都能比说得更好。

He moreover considered that foreign noblemen, rich and eccentric, might have habits of acting which were quite at variance with those of their English compeers.

此外，还认为，富有而古怪外国贵族行为习惯可能与英国贵族大径庭。

Children are brought up to-day, in happy contrast with my compeers, to feel that the pencil is no instrument of torture, hardly indeed to distinguish it from the tongue.

与我同龄人形成鲜明对比是， 如今孩子们被培养成认为铅笔不是刑具， 几乎无法将它与舌头区分开来。

His cunning was fresh with the day, and his qualms were gone with the night—in which particulars it is not improbable that he had compeers in Fleet-street and the City of London, that fine morning.

猾在白天变得新鲜，而不安在夜晚消失了——在那个晴朗早晨，在舰队街和伦敦金融城， 在细节上很可能有竞争对手。