Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World — Page 3
其次，我要抱怨自己判断力的严重缺失——我被你和其他一些人的恳求与错误推理所左右，违背了自己的意愿，允许我的游记得以出版。
I do, in the next place, complain of my own great want of judgment, in being prevailed upon by the entreaties and false reasoning of you and some others, very much against my own opinion, to suffer my travels to be published.
请你回想一下，当你坚持以公众利益为由时，我曾多少次请求你考虑：雅虎不过是一种动物，根本无法通过训诫或榜样加以改善。
Pray bring to your mind how often I desired you to consider, when you insisted on the motive of public good, that the Yahoos were a species of animals utterly incapable of amendment by precept or example:
事实也正是如此；因为，我本有理由期待至少在这个小岛上，一切弊端与腐败能够彻底终止，然而结果却是：经过六个多月的警示，我竟无从得知我的书按照我的意愿产生了哪怕一丁点效果。
and so it has proved; for, instead of seeing a full stop put to all abuses and corruptions, at least in this little island, as I had reason to expect; behold, after above six months warning, I cannot learn that my book has produced one single effect according to my intentions.
我希望你能写信告诉我：党派与派系何时已经消亡；法官何时变得博学而廉正；辩护律师何时变得诚实而谦逊，并略具常识；史密斯菲尔德何时燃起法律书籍堆成的火堆；
I desired you would let me know, by a letter, when party and faction were extinguished; judges learned and upright; pleaders honest and modest, with some tincture of common sense, and Smithfield blazing with pyramids of law books;
年轻贵族的教育何时得到彻底改革；医生何时遭到驱逐；雌性雅虎何时充满美德、荣誉、诚实与理智；权贵的宫廷与接见厅何时得到彻底清除与整顿；才智、功绩与学识何时得到应有的奖赏；
the young nobility's education entirely changed; the physicians banished; the female Yahoos abounding in virtue, honour, truth, and good sense; courts and levees of great ministers thoroughly weeded and swept; wit, merit, and learning rewarded;
以及所有玷污出版界的散文或诗歌作者何时被判处只能以自己的棉纸为食，以自己的墨水解渴。
all disgracers of the press in prose and verse condemned to eat nothing but their own cotton, and quench their thirst with their own ink.
Vocabulary
- do
- 执行、做、进行某个动作或活动
- in
- 在...里面、在...期间、用...方式
- the
- 定冠词，用于特指某个人或物
- next
- 紧接着的、下一个、最近的
- place
- 地方、位置、发生或进行某事的处所
- complain
- 抱怨、表示不满或不同意
- of
- 属于、关于、由...组成
- my
- 我的、属于说话者的物品或关系
- own
- 自己的、拥有、承认
- great
- 伟大的、重要的、程度深的
- want
- 缺乏、需要、想要
- judgment
- 判断力、评判能力、法院的裁决
- being
- 存在、生物、处于某种状态
- prevailed
- 占上风、流行、劝服
- upon
- 在...上、关于、立即
- by
- 被、通过、靠近、在...旁
- and
- 和、与、加上
- false
- 错误的、虚假的、不真实的
- reasoning
- 推理、论证、逻辑思维过程
- you
- 你、你们、对方
- some
- 一些、某些、大约
- others
- 其他人、别人、其他的东西
- very
- 非常、很、极其
- much
- 很多、程度深、大量
- against
- 反对、对抗、靠在...上
- opinion
- 意见、看法、观点
- to
- 向、至、用于不定式
- suffer
- 忍受、遭受、允许
- travels
- 旅行、旅程、行进
- be
- 是、存在、处于某种状态
- published
- 出版、发表、公开发行
- Pray
- 请、恳求、祈祷
- bring
- 带来、拿来、引起
- your
- 你的、你们的
- mind
- 思想、介意、照看
- how
- 怎样、如何、多么
- often
- 经常、常常、多次
- desired
- 渴望、希望、要求
- consider
- 考虑、思考、认为
- when
- 何时、当...时候、在...期间
- insisted
- 坚持、坚持认为、强调
- on
- 在...上、关于、继续
- motive
- 动机、目的、理由
- public
- 公众的、公开的、大众
- good
- 好的、善良的、利益
- that
- 那个、那样、使得
- were
- 是、存在、处于
- species
- 物种、种类
- animals
- 动物、兽类
- utterly
- 完全地、彻底地、绝对地
- incapable
- 无能的、不能的、无法做到
- amendment
- 改正、修正、改进
- example
- 例子、榜样、示范
- so
- 所以、这样、非常
- it
- 它、这个、那个
- has
- 有、拥有
- proved
- 证明、结果是、显示
- for
- 为了、因为、在...期间
- instead
- 代替、反而、却
- seeing
- 看见、看、鉴于
- full
- 充满的、完全的、丰富的
- stop
- 停止、停留、中止
- put
- 放、放置、表述
- all
- 全部、所有、一切
- abuses
- 滥用、虐待、恶劣对待
- corruptions
- 腐败、腐蚀、堕落
- at
- 在、以、向
- least
- 至少、最少、最后
- this
- 这个、这样、现在
- little
- 小的、少的、年幼的
- island
- 岛屿、岛
- as
- 当...时、因为、如同
- had
- 有、拥有、经历
- reason
- 原因、理由、推理
- expect
- 预期、期望、认为
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