A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick — Page 9
但为了给我的朋友辩护，他坦承，这个主意是由著名的萨尔马纳扎尔启发的，此人是福尔摩沙岛的土著，二十多年前从那里来到伦敦。
But in order to justify my friend, he confessed, that this expedient was put into his head by the famous Psalmanaazor, a native of the island Formosa, who came from thence to London, above twenty years ago,
他在交谈中告诉我的朋友，在他的国家，每当有年轻人被处死，刽子手就会将尸体作为珍馐卖给贵族人士。
and in conversation told my friend, that in his country, when any young person happened to be put to death, the executioner sold the carcass to persons of quality, as a prime dainty;
在他所处的时代，一个十五岁的丰腴少女因企图毒害皇帝而被钉上十字架处死，她的尸体从绞架上卸下，分割后以四百克朗的价格卖给了皇帝陛下的首席国务大臣及宫廷中其他大官显贵。
and that, in his time, the body of a plump girl of fifteen, who was crucified for an attempt to poison the Emperor, was sold to his imperial majesty's prime minister of state, and other great mandarins of the court in joints from the gibbet, at four hundred crowns.
我确实也不能否认，若是这座城里那几个丰腴的年轻姑娘——她们身无分文，却少不了要坐轿出行，还要穿着那些永远不会还钱的外国华服出入戏院和聚会——若她们也被如此利用，这个王国恐怕也不会因此变得更糟。
Neither indeed can I deny, that if the same use were made of several plump young girls in this town, who without one single groat to their fortunes, cannot stir abroad without a chair, and appear at a playhouse and assemblies in foreign fineries which they never will pay for, the kingdom would not be the worse.
有些意志消沉的人士对大量年老体衰、疾病缠身或身有残疾的穷人深感忧虑。
Some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed;
他们曾请求我认真思考，该采取何种措施，以减轻国家所承受的如此沉重的负担。
and I have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance.
Vocabulary
- But
- 表示转折或对比的连接词
- in
- 表示位置、时间或状态的介词
- order
- 为了；命令；顺序
- to
- 不定式标记；表示方向的介词
- justify
- 证明某事是正当或合理的
- my
- 我的；第一人称单数所有格
- friend
- 朋友；友好的人
- he
- 他；第三人称单数代词
- confessed
- 承认；供认；坦白
- that
- 那个；引导从句的连接词
- this
- 这个；指代近处的事物
- was
- 是；be动词过去式
- put
- 放；放置；提出
- into
- 进入；转变为
- his
- 他的；第三人称单数所有格
- head
- 头；头脑；领导
- by
- 由；在...旁边；通过
- the
- 定冠词；用于特指名词
- famous
- 著名的；有名的
- native
- 土著的；本地的
- of
- 的；属于...的
- island
- 岛；岛屿
- who
- 谁；引导定语从句
- came
- 来；到达
- from
- 从；来自
- above
- 上方；超过
- twenty
- 二十；数字20
- years
- 年；岁月
- ago
- 以前；过去
- and
- 和；与；并列连接词
- conversation
- 谈话；对话；交谈
- told
- 告诉；说；讲述
- country
- 国家；乡村；地区
- when
- 何时；当...时候
- any
- 任何的；某个
- young
- 年轻的；少年的
- person
- 人；个人
- happened
- 发生；碰巧
- be
- 是；存在
- death
- 死亡；死
- sold
- 卖；售出
- persons
- 人；人物
- quality
- 质量；品质；身份
- as
- 作为；像...一样
- prime
- 首要的；优质的
- time
- 时间；时代
- body
- 身体；尸体；物体
- girl
- 女孩；女性
- fifteen
- 十五；数字15
- for
- 为了；因为
- an
- 不定冠词；用于元音前
- attempt
- 尝试；企图
- poison
- 毒药；中毒
- Emperor
- 皇帝；帝王
- minister
- 部长；大臣
- state
- 国家；状态
- other
- 其他的；另外的
- great
- 伟大的；广大的
- court
- 法庭；宫廷
- joints
- 关节；接合处
- at
- 在；处于
- four
- 四；数字4
- hundred
- 一百；数字100
- crowns
- 王冠；货币
- Neither
- 两者都不；也不
- indeed
- 确实；实际上
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