With typical human fickleness, they jumped from one extreme to the other.
由于天生就的动摇性,容易从个极端跑到另个极端。
Then, began one of those extraordinary scenes with which the populace sometimes gratified their fickleness, or their better impulses towards generosity and mercy, or which they regarded as some set-off against their swollen account of cruel rage.
然后,开始了那些非同寻常的场景之,民众有时会用这些场景来满足他们的善,或者他们对慷慨和仁慈的更好冲动,或者他们认为这是对他们残酷愤怒的膨胀帐户的某种抵消。