is they write pornography.

他们写色情文学
They write scatological pornography.

他们写的是毫无价值的色情文学
They write what they call in French libelles.

他们撰写自诩为"反讽"的文学作品
They write broadsides, really, denouncing the royal family,

他们撰写小报传单来诋毁王室
denouncing the queen above all.

尤其是王后
Indelibly called "The Austrian whore" by her many detractors

王后被无所不在的诋毁者
who are omnipresent

中伤为"奥地利婊子"
They write against what they think is unearned privilege

他们抨击他们眼中那些不劳而获的特权
the kind of censorship that they see

他们认为正是特权阶级的审查制度
is keeping them from hitting the big time.

使他们无法成为巅峰人物
The point of Darnton's many wonderful books is that in the long run

丹顿的很多本著作都指出长远看来
although these people were the Grub Street hacks,

尽管这些人是潦倒的边缘文人