The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

The world is so taken up of late with novels and romances, that it will be hard for a private history to be taken for genuine, where the names and other circumstances of the person are concealed.

最近世界对小说和浪漫故事如此着迷，以至于对于那些名字和其他个人情况被隐藏的私人历史，很难被认为是真实的。

When a woman debauched from her youth, nay, even being the offspring of debauchery and vice, comes to give an Account of all her vicious practices, and even to descend to the particular occasions and circumstances by which she ran through in threescore years, an Author must be hard put to it wrap it up so clean as not to give room, especially for vicious readers, to turn it to his disadvantage.

当一个女人从年轻时就堕落，甚至是堕落和恶习的产物，来讲述她所有的恶行，甚至详细到她六十年来所经历的特定场合和情况，作者必须非常努力地包装，以免给那些恶习读者留下可乘之机，将它变成对自己不利的东西。