He has lasted longer than his rival Palmerston, a previous Foreign Office cat who retired to the British countryside in 2020.

他比他对手默顿待时间更长，默顿曾是外交部一名官员，于2020年退休，回到了英国农村。

You know Palmerston has been made Prime Minister.

你知道默顿已被任命为首相。

If Palmerston had an object to gain, he would go down to the House of Commons and betray or misrepresent a foreign Minister, without concern for his victim.

如果默顿有什么目，他会去下议院背叛或歪曲一位外交部长，而不关心他受害者。

The years of Palmerston's last Cabinet, 1859 to 1865, were avowedly years of truce — of arrested development.

1859 年至 1865 年， 默顿上届内阁岁月是公然休战岁月——发展受阻。

Perhaps Garibaldi — possibly even Cavour — could have sat " in the close of the evening, among the ruins of the Capitol, " but one hardly saw Napoleon III there, or Palmerston or Tennyson or Longfellow.

也许加里波第——甚至可能是加富尔——本可以“在傍晚时分在国会大厦废墟中”，但在那里几乎看不到拿破仑三世、默顿、丁尼生或朗费罗。

To him Secretary Seward seemed immensely strong and steady in leadership; but this was no discredit to Russell or Palmerston or Gladstone.

在他看来，苏厄德部长领导力似乎非常强大和稳健。 但这对罗素、默顿或格莱顿来说并没有丢脸。

He was almost the only man in England, or, for that matter, in Europe, who hated Palmerston and was not afraid of him, or of the press or the pulpit, the clubs or the bench, that stood behind him.

他几乎是全英格兰，或者就此而言，全欧洲唯一一个憎恨顿但并不惧怕他人，也不惧怕站在他身后媒体、讲台、俱乐部或长凳。

Then he said curtly: " Palmerston wants a quarrel" !

然后他简短地说：“顿要吵架” ！

Even after forty years, most people would refuse to believe it; they would still insist that Gladstone, Russell, and Palmerston were true villains of melodrama. The evidence against Gladstone in special seemed overwhelming.

即使在四十年后，大多数人仍会拒绝相信；他们仍然会坚持认为格莱顿、罗素和默顿是情节剧中真正反派。特别是反对格莱顿证据似乎势不可挡。

For nearly a year the private secretary had watched the board arranging itself for the collision between the Legation and Delane who stood behind the Palmerston Ministry.

近一年来，私人秘书一直看着董事会为使馆和站在默顿内阁背后德莱恩之间冲突做好准备。

This letter, quite in the line of Palmerston's supposed opinions, would have surprised no one, if it had been communicated to the Legation; and indeed, if Lee had captured Washington, no one could have blamed Palmerston for offering intervention.

这封信完全符合默顿假定观点，如果它被转达给公使馆，没有人会感到惊讶。事实上，如果李占领了华盛顿，就没有人会责怪默顿提供干预。

Neither he nor Palmerston " most strangely believed" in any proposition so obviously and palpably absurd, nor did Napoleon delude himself with philanthropy.

他和默顿都“非常奇怪地相信” 任何如此明显和显而易见荒谬主张， 拿破仑也没有用慈善事业自欺欺人。

At the time, the question was hardly raised, for no one doubted Palmerston's attitude or his plans. The season was near its end, and Cambridge House was soon closed. The Legation had troubles enough without caring to publish more.

当时几乎没有人提出这个问题，因为没有人怀疑默顿态度和计划。赛季接近尾声，剑桥之家很快关闭。公使馆已经有够多麻烦了，无心发表更多。

Both Palmerston and Russell were in this case.

默顿和罗素都属于这种情况。

Every new Minister or Ambassador at the Court of St. James received this preliminary lesson that he must, if possible, keep out of Palmerston's reach.

圣詹姆宫廷每一位新任大臣或大使都接受过这一初步教训， 如果可能话， 他必须远离默顿。

He believed that Palmerston's submission and silence were due to Russell.

他认为默顿屈服和沉默是由于罗素。

The proof of it was that it outraged even Palmerston, who immediately put up Sir George Cornewall Lewis to repudiate the Chancellor of the Exchequer, against whom he turned his press at the same time.

证据就是它甚至激怒了默顿， 他立即让乔治·康沃尔·刘易爵士否认财政大臣， 同时他还向他发起了媒体攻击。

The Minister would still have found his interest in thinking Russell friendly and Palmerston hostile.

。 部长仍然会发现他有兴趣认为罗素友好而默顿敌对。

The Trent Affair showed where Palmerston and Russell stood.

特伦特事件表明了默顿和罗素立场。

Palmerston had no notion of letting his hand be forced by Gladstone.

默顿没想过让格莱顿强迫他出手。