On Liberty — Page 5
他于1873年辞世,晚年在继女的温柔陪伴下安详度过,
He died in 1873, his last years being spent peacefully in the pleasant society of his step-daughter,
从她真挚的关怀与深切的精神共鸣中,他或许捕捉到了曾照亮其心灵生命的那道光芒的遥远回响。
from whose tender care and earnest intellectual sympathy he caught maybe a far-off reflection of the light which had irradiated his spiritual life.
约翰·斯图尔特·密尔写作《论自由》的背景,与泰勒夫人对其人生所施加的影响密切相关。
The circumstances under which John Stuart Mill wrote his Liberty are largely connected with the influence which Mrs. Taylor wielded over his career.
书中的献词广为人知,其中包含了有史以来哲学家为女性所写下的最为非凡的颂辞。
The dedication is well known. It contains the most extraordinary panegyric on a woman that any philosopher has ever penned.
「若我能将埋藏于她坟冢之中的伟大思想与高尚情感,哪怕诠释出一半传达给世人,我所带来的裨益,将远胜于我在没有她那近乎无与伦比的智慧的启发与辅佐下所能写就的一切。」
"Were I but capable of interpreting to the world one-half the great thoughts and noble feelings which are buried in her grave, I should be the medium of a greater benefit to it than is ever likely to arise from anything that I can write, unprompted and unassisted by her all but unrivalled wisdom."
世俗的冷嘲者固然容易对这样的句子嗤之以鼻,
It is easy for the ordinary worldly cynicism to curl a sceptical lip over sentences like these.
其中或许有情感的夸大——这是一个按照其父詹姆斯·密尔那般不易动情之人的「枯燥理性」培养出来的人,所难以避免的反弹——
There may be exaggeration of sentiment, the necessary and inevitable reaction of a man who was trained according to the "dry light" of so unimpressionable a man as James Mill, the father;
然而,所引用的这段话并非约翰·斯图尔特·密尔表达其对妻子智识影响坚定信念的唯一文字。
but the passage quoted is not the only one in which John Stuart Mill proclaims his unhesitating belief in the intellectual influence of his wife.
《论自由》这部论著尤其是在她的主导与鼓励下写成的,而在此之前,他还多次提及她对其思想所产生的影响。
The treatise on Liberty was written especially under her authority and encouragement, but there are many earlier references to the power which she exercised over his mind.
Vocabulary
- died
- 死亡,生命终止
- last
- 最后的,最终的
- spent
- 度过(时间),spend的过去式
- peacefully
- 平静地,安宁地
- pleasant
- 令人愉快的,惬意的
- society
- 陪伴,交往;也指社会
- step-daughter
- 继女,非亲生的女儿
- tender
- 温柔的,体贴的
- care
- 关怀,照料
- earnest
- 真诚的,认真的
- intellectual
- 智识的,与思想或学问相关
- sympathy
- 同情,共鸣,理解
- caught
- catch的过去式,抓住,感受到
- maybe
- 也许,可能
- far-off
- 遥远的,远处的
- reflection
- 反射,倒影;也指反思
- light
- 光,光芒;也指启示
- irradiated
- 照亮,用光线照射
- spiritual
- 精神的,心灵的
- circumstances
- 情况,环境,背景条件
- Liberty
- 自由,指密尔的著作《论自由》
- largely
- 很大程度上,主要地
- connected
- 与……有关联,相连的
- influence
- 影响,作用力
- wielded
- 施加(影响或权力),运用
- career
- 职业生涯,事业
- dedication
- 题献,献词;也指奉献精神
- known
- 众所周知的,知名的
- contains
- 包含,收录
- extraordinary
- 非凡的,极不寻常的
- panegyric
- 颂词,热情洋溢的赞扬文章
- philosopher
- 哲学家,从事哲学研究的人
- penned
- 写作,用笔写下
- capable
- 有能力的,能够做某事的
- interpreting
- 阐释,解读,传达意义
- one-half
- 一半,二分之一
- thoughts
- 思想,想法,复数形式
- noble
- 高尚的,崇高的
- feelings
- 感情,情感,复数形式
- buried
- 埋葬,被掩埋在……之中
- grave
- 坟墓,墓地
- medium
- 媒介,传播工具或手段
- greater
- 更大的,更重要的,great的比较级
- benefit
- 益处,好处,利益
- likely
- 可能的,有可能发生的
- arise
- 产生,出现,发生
- unprompted
- 未受提示的,自发的
- unassisted
- 未经协助的,独立完成的
- unrivalled
- 无与伦比的,无可匹敌的
- wisdom
- 智慧,聪明才智
- ordinary
- 普通的,平凡的
- worldly
- 世俗的,注重现实利益的
- cynicism
- 愤世嫉俗,冷嘲热讽的态度
- curl
- 翘起(嘴唇),卷曲
- sceptical
- 怀疑的,持怀疑态度的
- lip
- 嘴唇
- sentences
- 句子,语句,复数形式
- exaggeration
- 夸张,言过其实
- sentiment
- 情感,感情,情绪倾向
- necessary
- 必要的,必需的
- inevitable
- 不可避免的,必然发生的
- reaction
- 反应,对某事的回应或反弹
- trained
- 受过训练的,被培养的
- according
- 根据,依照
- dry
- 枯燥的,无趣的;也指干燥
- unimpressionable
- 不易受感动的,感情迟钝的
- passage
- 段落,文章中的一段
- quoted
- 被引用的,引述的
- proclaims
- 宣称,公开声明
- unhesitating
- 毫不犹豫的,坚定的
- belief
- 信念,信仰,相信
- treatise
- 专论,学术论著
- especially
- 尤其,特别地
- authority
- 权威,权力;也指授权
- encouragement
- 鼓励,支持,激励
- earlier
- 更早的,之前的,early的比较级
- references
- 提及,参考,引用的复数
- power
- 权力,力量,影响力
- exercised
- 施加,行使(权力或影响)
- mind
- 思想,头脑,心智
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