Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World — Page 2
同样,在关于投机者学院的叙述中,以及我与主人慧骃的多段对话里,你要么省略了一些重要细节,要么对它们进行了删改或篡改,使得我几乎认不出自己的作品了。
Likewise in the account of the academy of projectors, and several passages of my discourse to my master Houyhnhnm, you have either omitted some material circumstances, or minced or changed them in such a manner, that I do hardly know my own work.
早些时候我在一封信中向你提及此事,你却回答说你害怕冒犯他人;说掌权者对出版物盯得很紧,不仅善于曲解,而且动辄惩处任何看似影射(我想你们是这么称呼的)的文字。
When I formerly hinted to you something of this in a letter, you were pleased to answer that you were afraid of giving offence; that people in power were very watchful over the press, and apt not only to interpret, but to punish every thing which looked like an innuendo (as I think you call it).
但请问,我在许多年前、相隔约五千里格之遥、在另一个君主统治之下所说的话,又怎么可能被套用到如今据说统治着这群人的那些野胡身上呢?何况那时我根本没有料到、也没有惧怕过要生活在他们统治之下的不幸。
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, and at about five thousand leagues distance, in another reign, be applied to any of the Yahoos, who now are said to govern the herd; especially at a time when I little thought, or feared, the unhappiness of living under them?
当我亲眼目睹这些野胡坐在由慧骃拉着的车辆中,仿佛慧骃才是畜牲、而野胡才是理性生物一般,我难道没有最充分的理由去抱怨吗?
Have not I the most reason to complain, when I see these very Yahoos carried by Houyhnhnms in a vehicle, as if they were brutes, and those the rational creatures?
而事实上,为了避免目睹如此骇人而令人厌恶的景象,正是我隐居于此的主要动机之一。
And indeed to avoid so monstrous and detestable a sight was one principal motive of my retirement hither.
以上这些,我认为有必要就你自身以及你辜负我对你的信任一事,向你说明。
Thus much I thought proper to tell you in relation to yourself, and to the trust I reposed in you.
Vocabulary
- Likewise
- 同样地,以相似的方式
- in
- 在...里面,表示位置或状态
- the
- 定冠词,表示特定的人或物
- account
- 账户,叙述,解释
- of
- 的,表示所有格或关系
- academy
- 学院,学术机构
- projectors
- 投影仪,或规划者
- and
- 和,连接词
- several
- 几个,多个但不是很多
- passages
- 段落,通道,航程
- my
- 我的,所有格代词
- discourse
- 谈话,讨论,文章
- to
- 到,向,不定式标记
- master
- 主人,掌握,精通
- you
- 你,你们,代词
- have
- 有,已经,助动词
- either
- 任何一个,两者之一
- omitted
- 省略,遗漏,不包括
- some
- 一些,某个,大约
- material
- 物质的,重要的,材料
- circumstances
- 情况,环境,条件
- or
- 或者,否则
- changed
- 改变,交换,换
- them
- 他们,它们,代词
- such
- 这样的,如此的
- manner
- 方式,举止,风度
- that
- 那个,以至于
- do
- 做,助动词
- hardly
- 几乎不,勉强
- know
- 知道,认识
- own
- 自己的,拥有
- work
- 工作,作品,劳动
- When
- 当...时候,何时
- formerly
- 以前,从前,昔日
- hinted
- 暗示,提示,暗指
- something
- 某事,什么东西
- this
- 这个,这个的
- letter
- 信件,字母
- were
- 是,过去式的是
- pleased
- 高兴的,满意的
- answer
- 回答,答案,应对
- afraid
- 害怕的,担心的
- giving
- 给予,给,赠送
- offence
- 冒犯,冒犯行为,违法
- people
- 人,人民,民众
- power
- 力量,权力,能力
- very
- 非常,很
- watchful
- 警惕的,留意的
- over
- 在...上方,超过
- press
- 按,压,新闻出版
- apt
- 容易的,倾向的,恰当的
- not
- 不,否定词
- only
- 只有,仅仅
- interpret
- 解释,翻译,理解
- but
- 但是,而是
- punish
- 惩罚,处罚,严厉对待
- every
- 每一个,每个
- thing
- 事物,东西,事情
- which
- 哪个,其中的
- looked
- 看起来,外观
- like
- 喜欢,像,如同
- an
- 一个,不定冠词
- as
- 作为,当...时,如
- think
- 想,认为,思考
- call
- 叫,打电话,称为
- it
- 它,代词
- But
- 但是,可是
- pray
- 祈祷,请(礼貌说法)
- how
- 如何,怎样,多少
- could
- 能,可以,过去式
- spoke
- 说话,发言,过去式
- so
- 所以,这样,那么
- many
- 许多,很多
- years
- 年,岁月
- ago
- 以前,...前
- at
- 在...处,在...时
- about
- 关于,大约,左右
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