Anna Karenina — Page 3
自由派说，婚姻是一种早已过时的制度，需要彻底改革；而家庭生活确实让斯捷潘·阿尔卡季耶维奇几乎得不到什么乐趣，反而迫使他不得不撒谎、虚伪，而这些都与他的天性格格不入。
The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs reconstruction; and family life certainly afforded Stepan Arkadyevitch little gratification, and forced him into lying and hypocrisy, which was so repulsive to his nature.
自由派说——或者说，他们暗示——宗教不过是用来约束人民中野蛮阶层的一道枷锁；而斯捷潘·阿尔卡季耶维奇就连一场短暂的宗教仪式也站不下来，两条腿酸痛难忍，而且他始终搞不明白，既然今生今世可以过得如此惬意，那些关于来世的冠冕堂皇、言辞激昂的说法究竟有何意义。
The liberal party said, or rather allowed it to be understood, that religion is only a curb to keep in check the barbarous classes of the people; and Stepan Arkadyevitch could not get through even a short service without his legs aching from standing up, and could never make out what was the object of all the terrible and high-flown language about another world when life might be so very amusing in this world.
除此之外，斯捷潘·阿尔卡季耶维奇喜欢开玩笑，常常爱用这样一句话来难倒那些头脑简单的人：如果一个人以自己的出身为荣，那他就不该只追溯到留里克为止，而应该承认自己家族最初的祖先——猴子。
And with all this, Stepan Arkadyevitch, who liked a joke, was fond of puzzling a plain man by saying that if he prided himself on his origin, he ought not to stop at Rurik and disown the first founder of his family—the monkey.
就这样，自由主义已经成为斯捷潘·阿尔卡季耶维奇根深蒂固的习惯，他喜爱自己订阅的报纸，就如同他喜爱饭后那支雪茄一样，因为它能让他的大脑笼罩在一片淡淡的朦胧之中。
And so Liberalism had become a habit of Stepan Arkadyevitch's, and he liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner, for the slight fog it diffused in his brain.
Vocabulary
- liberal
- 自由主义的，思想开放的
- party
- 政党；也指聚会或派对
- marriage
- 婚姻，男女结合的法律关系
- institution
- 制度；社会长期存在的惯例或组织
- quite
- 相当，十分，表示程度较高
- date
- 日期；out of date意为过时、陈旧
- reconstruction
- 重建，对旧事物进行彻底改造
- certainly
- 当然，确实，表示肯定语气
- afforded
- afford的过去式，提供或给予某种体验
- gratification
- 满足感，愉悦感，欲望得到满足
- forced
- 强迫，迫使某人做不愿做的事
- lying
- 说谎，陈述不实之事的行为
- hypocrisy
- 虚伪，言行不一、假装正直的行为
- repulsive
- 令人厌恶的，使人反感的
- nature
- 本性，天性，人的内在性格特质
- rather
- 更确切地说，表示修正前述内容
- allowed
- allow的过去式，允许，容许
- religion
- 宗教，对神灵或信仰体系的信奉
- curb
- 约束，控制，限制某种行为
- check
- 检查；keep in check意为约束控制
- barbarous
- 野蛮的，粗鲁凶残、未受文明熏陶的
- classes
- 阶层，阶级，社会群体的划分
- even
- 甚至，连……都，表示意外或强调
- service
- 礼拜仪式，宗教集会活动
- aching
- 持续隐隐作痛，感到酸痛不适
- object
- 目的，目标；也指物体
- terrible
- 可怕的，糟糕的，令人不安的
- high-flown
- 夸张浮华的，言辞过于矫情造作
- amusing
- 有趣的，令人发笑的，娱乐性强的
- joke
- 笑话，玩笑，幽默的言语或行为
- fond
- 喜爱的，fond of表示对某事有好感
- puzzling
- 令人困惑的，使人摸不着头脑
- plain
- 普通的，简单直白、不复杂的
- prided
- pride的过去式，以……为荣，自豪
- origin
- 起源，出身，事物的来源或祖先
- ought
- ought to，应该，表示道义上的责任
- disown
- 否认关系，声称与某人无关联
- founder
- 创始人，最初建立某事物的人
- monkey
- 猴子，灵长类动物；此指进化论祖先
- Liberalism
- 自由主义，主张个人自由的政治思想
- habit
- 习惯，长期形成的固定行为模式
- cigar
- 雪茄，用烟叶卷成的高档烟草
- slight
- 轻微的，少量的，程度不深的
- fog
- 雾；此处比喻头脑中的迷蒙感
- diffused
- 扩散，弥漫，使某物散布开来
- brain
- 大脑，头脑，思维的器官
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