The veriest coward would accept the challenge.

就是那最懦弱的胆小鬼也会接受这种挑战。

The veriest sense of security comes from the continually improving control of life.

真正的安全感源于对人生掌控能力的不断提高。

Here I was, mingling with the great, and yet helpless as the veriest grade-three thinker.

我在这里，和伟人并肩，却和真正的第三等级思考者一样无助。

One reviewer dubbed it "the veriest trash... more suited to the slums than to intelligent, respectable people."

一位评论者称为是它(指那本书，译者注)“根本就是垃圾……更适合于贫民窟，而不是那些有才智、受人尊敬的人。”

Rather than forego the veriest gratifications of vanity, he will wring them from the anguish of wretched and ill-fated creatures;

他不会摒弃虚荣带来的真正满足感，而是从不幸的生物的痛苦中攫取这种满足；