What short shrift I should make of the vicaire, M. Valenod and all their jobberies!
我应该对代理人 M. Valenod 和他们所有的工作不屑一顾!
乌有乡消息(下)
Said I: " Was there not a serious danger of such moneys being misused — of jobbery, in fact" ?
我说:“难道这些钱没有被滥用的严重危险——事实上,滥用职权”?
亨利·亚当斯的教育(下)
Grant himself had done nothing that seemed so bad as this to one who had lived long enough to distinguish between the ways of presidential jobbery, if not between the jobs.
对于一个活得足够长,能够区分总统工作方式(如果不是工作)的人来说,格兰特本人没有做过任何事情。
亨利·亚当斯的教育(下)
Adams was sure to learn backwards, but the case seemed entirely different with Cameron, a typical Pennsylvanian, a practical politician, whom all the reformers, including all the Adamses, had abused for a lifetime for subservience to moneyed interests and political jobbery.