Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World — Page 6
如果雅虎族的谴责能对我有任何影响，我就有充分的理由抱怨——他们中的一些人竟如此大胆，认为我的游记不过是我凭空捏造的虚构故事，甚至暗示慧骃和雅虎的存在不比乌托邦的居民更真实。
If the censure of the Yahoos could any way affect me, I should have great reason to complain, that some of them are so bold as to think my book of travels a mere fiction out of mine own brain, and have gone so far as to drop hints, that the Houyhnhnms and Yahoos have no more existence than the inhabitants of Utopia.
说实话，关于小人国、大人国（这个词本应如此拼写，而非错误地拼成Brobdingnag）以及飞岛国的居民，我从未听说过有哪个雅虎狂妄到质疑他们的存在或我所记述的相关事实，因为那些真相会立刻令每位读者信服。
Indeed I must confess, that as to the people of Lilliput, Brobdingrag (for so the word should have been spelt, and not erroneously Brobdingnag), and Laputa, I have never yet heard of any Yahoo so presumptuous as to dispute their being, or the facts I have related concerning them; because the truth immediately strikes every reader with conviction.
而我对慧骃和雅虎的描述，难道可信度就更低吗？就后者而言，显而易见，即便在这个国家，也有成千上万的人，他们与慧骃之地的畜生兄弟的唯一区别，不过是会说几句含糊不清的话，且不裸身行走罢了。
And is there less probability in my account of the Houyhnhnms or Yahoos, when it is manifest as to the latter, there are so many thousands even in this country, who only differ from their brother brutes in Houyhnhnmland, because they use a sort of jabber, and do not go naked?
我写作是为了改善他们，而非获得他们的赞许。整个族类齐声颂扬，对我的意义还不如我马厩里那两匹堕落的慧骃的一声嘶鸣；因为即便是这些堕落的慧骃，我仍能从它们身上学到某些美德，而不沾染任何恶习。
I wrote for their amendment, and not their approbation. The united praise of the whole race would be of less consequence to me, than the neighing of those two degenerate Houyhnhnms I keep in my stable; because from these, degenerate as they are, I still improve in some virtues without any mixture of vice.
这些可悲的动物难道还妄图认为，我已堕落到需要为自己的诚实辩护的地步？
Do these miserable animals presume to think, that I am so degenerated as to defend my veracity?
Vocabulary
- If
- 条件词，表示假设或条件
- the
- 定冠词，用于特指某个名词
- censure
- 严厉批评或谴责某人的行为
- of
- 介词，表示所有格或从属关系
- could
- can的过去式，表示能够或可能性
- any
- 任何的，一些，用于疑问或否定句
- way
- 方式、途径或道路
- affect
- 影响或对某事物产生作用
- me
- 第一人称宾格代词，我
- should
- 情态动词，表示应该或义务
- have
- 有，拥有，或作助动词
- great
- 伟大的、巨大的、程度高的
- reason
- 原因、理由或推理能力
- to
- 不定式标记或表示方向的介词
- complain
- 抱怨或表达不满
- that
- 那个，用作代词或连接词
- some
- 一些，某些数量的人或物
- them
- 第三人称复数宾格代词，他们
- are
- be动词，表示存在或状态
- so
- 如此、这样或非常
- bold
- 大胆的、勇敢的或冒失的
- as
- 作为、如同或当...时
- think
- 思考、认为或想象
- my
- 我的，第一人称所有格
- book
- 书籍，记录或预订
- travels
- 旅行或游历
- mere
- 仅仅、只是或纯粹的
- fiction
- 虚构的故事或小说
- out
- 出去、外面或熄灭
- mine
- 我的或矿山
- own
- 自己的或拥有
- brain
- 大脑或思维
- and
- 连接词，表示和或与
- gone
- go的过去分词，已离开
- far
- 远的、遥远或很
- drop
- 下降、掉落或滴
- hints
- 暗示或提示
- no
- 否定词，表示没有或不
- more
- 更多或不再
- existence
- 存在或实际存在的状态
- than
- 比，用于比较
- inhabitants
- 居民或居住者
- Indeed
- 确实、实际上
- must
- 必须或必然
- confess
- 承认或坦白
- people
- 人民或人们
- for
- 为了、因为或在...期间
- word
- 词语或言语
- been
- be的过去分词
- spelt
- 拼写或拼法
- erroneously
- 错误地或不正确地
- never
- 从不或永远不
- yet
- 还、迄今为止
- heard
- hear的过去式，听见
- presumptuous
- 自以为是的、傲慢的
- dispute
- 争论、辩论或否认
- their
- 他们的，第三人称所有格
- being
- 存在或存在物
- or
- 或，表示选择
- facts
- 事实或真实的情况
- related
- 相关的或有关系的
- concerning
- 关于或涉及
- because
- 因为、由于
- truth
- 真理或真实
- immediately
- 立即或马上
- strikes
- 打击、罢工或给人印象
- every
- 每一个或每个
- reader
- 读者或阅读者
- with
- 用、以或伴随
- conviction
- 信念或确信
- And
- 并且、和
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