Jane Eyre: An Autobiography — Page 2
我想向这些持怀疑态度的人指出一些显而易见的区别；我想提醒他们一些简单的真理。
I would suggest to such doubters certain obvious distinctions; I would remind them of certain simple truths.
墨守成规并不等于道德高尚。自以为义并不等于真正的信仰。
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.
抨击前者并不是攻击后者。揭下法利赛人脸上的面具，并不是对荆棘冠冕举起不敬之手。
To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
这些事物与行为是截然对立的：它们之间的区别，正如恶与善之间的区别一样分明。
These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue.
人们常常将二者混为一谈，但它们不应被混淆：表象不应被误认为真理。
Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth;
那些只会抬高和美化少数人的狭隘人类教条，不应取代基督救赎世界的信仰。
narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ.
二者之间确实存在差异——我再次强调——明确而清晰地划定它们之间的界限，是一种善举，而非恶行。
There is—I repeat it—a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them.
世人也许不愿看到这些概念被分离，因为他们早已习惯将二者融合在一起，觉得让外表的虚华充当真实的价值颇为方便——让粉饰一新的墙壁为肮脏的圣坛作证。
The world may not like to see these ideas dissevered, for it has been accustomed to blend them; finding it convenient to make external show pass for sterling worth—to let white-washed walls vouch for clean shrines.
世人也许会憎恨那些敢于审视和揭露的人——敢于刮去表面的镀金、露出其下劣质金属的人——敢于穿透坟墓、揭示其中朽骨的人；但无论世人如何憎恨，它都欠他一份情。
It may hate him who dares to scrutinise and expose—to rase the gilding, and show base metal under it—to penetrate the sepulchre, and reveal charnel relics: but hate as it will, it is indebted to him.
Vocabulary
- would
- 表示过去将来时或条件假设的助动词
- suggest
- 提议、建议或暗示某事
- to
- 不定式标记或表示方向的介词
- such
- 这样的、如此的
- certain
- 肯定的、确定的、某些的
- obvious
- 明显的、显而易见的
- distinctions
- 区别、差异、特殊荣誉或地位
- remind
- 提醒、使想起
- them
- 他们、她们或它们的宾格代词
- of
- 表所有关系的介词
- simple
- 简单的、朴素的
- truths
- 真理、事实
- is
- 动词be的第三人称单数
- not
- 否定副词
- morality
- 道德、品德、伦理原则
- religion
- 宗教、信仰
- attack
- 攻击、开始从事
- first
- 第一的、首先
- last
- 最后的、持续
- pluck
- 拔掉、勇气
- mask
- 面具、掩盖
- from
- 来自、从
- face
- 脸、面对
- lift
- 举起、提升
- an
- 不定冠词
- hand
- 手、帮助
- Crown
- 王冠、顶部
- Thorns
- 荆棘、刺
- These
- 这些
- things
- 东西、事物
- and
- 和、并且
- deeds
- 行为、事迹
- are
- 动词be的复数形式
- opposed
- 相反的、对立的
- they
- 他们、她们
- as
- 如同、当...时
- distinct
- 不同的、清晰的
- vice
- 恶习、坏毛病
- virtue
- 美德、优点
- Men
- 男人
- too
- 也、太
- often
- 经常、常常
- confound
- 混淆、搞混
- should
- 应该、应当
- be
- 是、存在
- appearance
- 外表、外观
- mistaken
- 错误的、弄错的
- for
- 为了、对于
- truth
- 真理、真实
- narrow
- 狭窄的、狭隘的
- human
- 人的、人类的
- doctrines
- 学说、教义
- that
- 那个、那
- only
- 仅仅、只有
- tend
- 倾向于、照料
- magnify
- 放大、夸大
- few
- 少数的、很少
- creed
- 信条、教义
- Christ
- 基督
- There
- 那里、那儿
- repeat
- 重复、反复
- it
- 它
- difference
- 差异、区别
- good
- 好的、善的
- bad
- 坏的、不好的
- action
- 行动、作用
- mark
- 标记、痕迹
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