The nation was led astray by a mountebank.

这个国家被一个夸夸其谈的骗子引入歧途。

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I feared the woman had no better thought than to make a mountebank of her child!

我本来担心这女人除去拿她的孩子装幌子再也没有更好的想法呢！

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The two children, picked up by some policeman and placed in the refuge, or stolen by some mountebank, or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, did not return.

那两个孩子，也许是被什么警察收留关进拘留所了，或是被什么江湖艺人拐走了，或者压根儿就是迷失在这个无边无际的巴黎迷宫里了，他们没有回来。

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Dirksen's oratory became, in the end, something of a mountebank performance.

CNN: Lance Morrow: We lose a great speaker, we gain a great book