1. have some rudiments of docility

略显温驯

注意：①rudiment此处不可用单数。②docility与其形容词docile的读音。

2. He spends his nights in debauchery.

他夜夜沉湎酒色。

注意：由debauchery联想到orgy。debauch的同义动词辨析见《韦氏大学》11版debase条。

3. The law of his trial takes to a caricatural extreme the tendency of the Austrian legal system to concentrate on the criminal rather than the crime.

审讯他所用的法律，将奥地利法律体系的这一倾向推向了滑稽的极致：审判的重点是罪犯而非罪行。

注意：①caricatural与caricature的读音。②take的宾语是the tendency [. . .] system。③the tendency [. . .] system的内容是to concentrate [. . . ] crime，因其太长，故将to a caricatural extreme提前。

4. address the staff from on high

居高临下向雇员们训话

注意：from on high是词组，有戏谑色彩。

5. Georg Bendemann is at ease with numbers.

乔格·班德芒对数字驾轻就熟。

注意：be at ease with sb.与be at ease with sth.的区别。

来源

Robertson, Ritchie. Kafka: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004.