He will turn his back on me if I ask him for money even from other people's mind that we are good friends!
虽然外人看来我们俩确实是好朋友,但如果我向他借钱的话他肯定会拒绝我的。This has always been a less controlled process than outsiders imagine, and now its inherent contradictions are out in the open.
这一直是一个小量的控制过程,而不是像外人想象的那样,现在,其固有的矛盾暴露出来了,公开化了。There, prisoners are guarded constantly, never left alone or allowed to speak to any outsider without permission.
在那儿,囚犯们始终被看守着,从来不许单独离开,没得到允许从来不准同外人说话。Strangers are always congratulating me for what I have "taken on" (particularly when they hear I don't have children of my own).
外人总是祝贺我所担当的一切(尤其是当得知我没有自己的孩子的时候)。After being away for so long, he feels like an alien in his own country now.
背井离乡这么久,现在在他自己的国家,他觉得自己像个外人。Moreover he must enjoy a good reputation among the outsiders, lest people speak evil about him and he fall into the snare of the devil.
并且在外人中也必须有好声望,怕他遭人诽谤,落入魔鬼的罗网。I am a stranger and a sojourner with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
我在你们中间是外人,是寄居的。求你们在这里给我一块地,我好埋葬我的死人,使他不在我眼前。From Roxy's manner of speech, a stranger would have expected her to be black, but she was not.
从罗克珊说话的音调听起来,外人一定会猜想她是个黑人,其实她却不是。What's different about him is a new willingness to give outsiders a glimpse of that tussle inside him.
与以前不同的是,他现在愿意让外人觉察到他内心的矛盾。