他们肆元忌惮地违犯着约束着众人的行为准则； 公然在差役的鼻子底下吸烟，尽管镇上人每这样吸上一日就要被罚一先令；

• They transgressed without fear or scruple, the rules of behaviour that were binding on all others: smoking tobacco under the beadle's very nose, although each whiff would have cost a townsman a shilling;