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.(那兩個孩子，也許是被什么警察收留關進拘留所了，或是被什么江湖藝人拐走了，或者壓根兒就是迷失在這個無邊無際的巴黎迷宮里了，他們沒有回來。)

The nation was led astray by a mountebank.(這個國家被一個夸夸其談的騙子引入歧途。)

I feared the woman had no better thought than to make a mountebank of her child!(我本來擔心這女人除去拿她的孩子裝幌子再也沒有更好的想法呢！)

I remember. there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which as he told the country people were very good against an earthquake Joseph Addison.(我記得…有一個厚顏無恥的商人來推銷能(據他對村民們所說的)對付地震極為有效的藥片(約瑟夫·艾迪生)。)

Theatrical, not to say charlatan and mountebank, politics.