It was a mariage de convenance — there'd been no wooing, no winning.

这是一场契约婚姻——没有求爱， 没有胜利。

" The Vandals are already here in Russia, and they will be particularly terrible among our profoundly religious people, because we know nothing of the curbs, the convenances and public opinion, which are so strongly developed among European peoples" .

“破坏者已经在俄罗斯这里，他们在我们虔诚的宗教人士中尤其可怕，因为我们对欧洲人民中如此强烈发展的限制、公约和舆论一无所知”。