On Liberty — Page 9
每个人都会根据自己对哲学思维的了解，以及对这类奇特却并不罕见的关系的认识，对穆勒生涯中这段浪漫插曲作出自己的判断。
Every one will judge for himself of this romantic episode in Mill's career, according to such experience as he may possess of the philosophic mind and of the value of these curious but not infrequent relationships.
这也许是一段痴迷，或者，如果我们愿意这样说，它也许是穆勒生涯中最优美、最富人情味的一页。
It may have been a piece of infatuation, or, if we prefer to say so, it may have been the most gracious and the most human page in Mill's career.
穆勒夫人也许只是通过附和丈夫的观点来奉承他的虚荣心，又或者她确实是一位充满灵感与智识助益的仙女艾格丽雅。
Mrs. Mill may have flattered her husband's vanity by echoing his opinions, or she may have indeed been an Egeria, full of inspiration and intellectual helpfulness.
在这类情形中通常发生的——尽管穆勒本人因信奉男女平等而不愿如此看待——是两种不同类型与层次的思维之间极为宝贵的相互作用与影响。
What usually happens in these cases,--although the philosopher himself, through his belief in the equality of the sexes, was debarred from thinking so,--is the extremely valuable action and reaction of two different classes and orders of mind.
对于任何一个沉浸于抽象思辨领域的人来说，具体事实的生动鲜活的呈现，都会带来一种令人愉悦的震撼。
To any one whose thoughts have been occupied with the sphere of abstract speculation, the lively and vivid presentment of concrete fact comes as a delightful and agreeable shock.
女性的直觉往往使她不仅能够领悟一个真理，还能将其加以阐明，尽管她完全无法给出充分的哲学论证。
The instinct of the woman often enables her not only to apprehend but to illustrate a truth for which she would be totally unable to give the adequate philosophic reasoning.
另一方面，男性凭借更为严谨的逻辑方法和缓慢的形式推理过程，往往会以为那跃然直达结论的灵动直觉，实际上是建立在他自身所意识到的那些思维过程之上的。
On the other hand, the man, with the more careful logical methods and the slow processes of formal reasoning, is apt to suppose that the happy intuition which leaps to the conclusion is really based on the intellectual processes of which he is conscious in his own case.
如此一来，这美好契合中的双方都同样感到心满意足。
Thus both parties to the happy contract are equally pleased.
Vocabulary
- every
- 每个、所有的
- one
- 一个、某个人
- will
- 将会、意愿
- judge
- 判断、评判
- for
- 为了、因为
- himself
- 他自己
- of
- 的、关于
- this
- 这个、这
- romantic
- 浪漫的、爱情的
- episode
- 事件、插曲
- in
- 在...里面、在...期间
- career
- 职业、事业
- according
- 根据、按照
- to
- 到、向、对于
- such
- 这样的、如此的
- experience
- 经验、经历
- as
- 当...时、如同
- he
- 他
- may
- 可能、也许
- possess
- 拥有、具有
- the
- 那个、这个
- mind
- 思想、头脑
- and
- 和、以及
- value
- 价值、重视
- these
- 这些
- curious
- 奇怪的、好奇的
- but
- 但是、可是
- not
- 不、没有
- relationships
- 关系、人际关系
- It
- 它
- have
- 有、拥有
- been
- 是、被
- piece
- 块、件、篇
- or
- 或者、或
- if
- 如果、是否
- we
- 我们
- prefer
- 更喜欢、宁愿
- say
- 说、讲
- so
- 所以、这样
- most
- 最、大多数
- human
- 人类的、人性的
- page
- 页、篇章
- Mrs
- 夫人、太太
- flattered
- 奉承、拍马屁
- her
- 她的
- husband
- 丈夫、老公
- vanity
- 虚荣心、自负
- by
- 被、通过
- echoing
- 附和、重复
- his
- 他的
- opinions
- 意见、观点
- she
- 她
- indeed
- 确实、实际上
- an
- 一个
- full
- 充满、完整
- inspiration
- 灵感、启发
- intellectual
- 智力的、知识的
- What
- 什么
- usually
- 通常、一般
- happens
- 发生、出现
- cases
- 情况、案例
- although
- 虽然、尽管
- philosopher
- 哲学家
- through
- 通过、穿过
- belief
- 相信、信念
- equality
- 平等、相等
- sexes
- 性别
- was
- 是、被
- from
- 从、来自
- thinking
- 思考、想
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