How did this eccentric personage pass his time on the Mongolia?

这位关在蒙古号船舱里怪客到底在干些什呢？

Many great personages in the world history had deep affections for their homes.

世界上许多名人都家庭有着深切感情。

It was a seaman, quite a little personage, so little as if he were a midshipman; but a midshipman it was not.

这是一个水手——一个相当小人物，小得好像一个海军学生，不过他并不是一个海军学生。

To Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner he was scarcely a less interesting personage than to herself.

嘉丁纳夫妇也和她有同感，认为他是个耐人寻味人物。

The other was a small, slight–built personage, with a nervous, intelligent face, and bright eyes peering out from under eyebrows which he was incessantly twitching.

另外一个是一位带点神经质人。这人又瘦又矮，看样子相当能干。他眉头紧紧皱着，他眼睛有时透过长长睫毛，闪动着犀利目光，有时显得迷迷糊糊，似乎什也没有看见。

And not only important personages crave a good listener, but ordinary folk do too. As the Reader's Digest once said: " Many persons call a doctor when all they want is an audience" .

伊萨克·F。马科森是名记者，曾采访过上千人杰。他认为，大多数人没能给留下良好印象原因，是他们当时没有倾听诉说。 " 他们太注重自己想要表达东西，却不把自己耳朵张开… … 某些政要曾告诉我说，他们宁要优秀倾听者，也不要滔滔不绝话匣子。似乎，倾听能力较之其他任何良好禀赋都更令人稀罕。" 不仅这些政要渴望一个好倾听者，普通民众也是如此。 就像读者文摘上说：" 很多人去看医生，只是因为他们想找一个可以倾诉人。"

If it is the devil that tempts the young to enjoy themselves, is it not, perhaps, the same personage that persuades the old to condemn their enjoyment?

如果是魔鬼引诱青年人享乐人生，难道不会是同一魔鬼在劝说老人谴责青年人享乐吗？

He was successfully supplanted for a while, at the beginning of the present century, by Buonaparte; but as process of time rendered the latter personage stale and ineffective the older phrase resumed its early prominence.

十九世纪初，他一度让拿破仑名字给取代了。但是，随着时间推移，后者变得陈腐失效，从前句老话又恢复了它原来重要位。