On Liberty — Page 11
但她几乎没有资格成为教义方面的批评者。
But to be a critic of doctrine she was hardly qualified.
穆勒在这一点上已作出了一些明确的承认。
Mill has made some clear admissions on this point.
他说,"我思维方式上唯一真正发生过的变革,在她的影响变得举足轻重之前,就已经完成了。"
"The only actual revolution which has ever taken place in my modes of thinking was already complete," he says, before her influence became paramount.
他对自己能力有一段异常谦逊的评价(贝恩博士曾对此加以关注),乍看之下似乎与上述说法相矛盾。
There is a curiously humble estimate of his own powers (to which Dr. Bain has called attention), which reads at first sight as if it contradicted this.
「在我文学生涯的大部分时间里,我对她所扮演的角色,是从相当早期便认为自己在思想领域最能胜任的那种角色,即阐释原创思想家、并在他们与公众之间充当调解人。」
"During the greater part of my literary life I have performed the office in relation to her, which, from a rather early period, I had considered as the most useful part that I was qualified to take in the domain of thought, that of an interpreter of original thinkers, and mediator between them and the public."
就此而言,穆勒似乎一直在他那位神谕般的人物脚下聆听;但请注意紧接其后那句话中所作出的极为值得关注的例外:
So far it would seem that Mill had sat at the feet of his oracle; but observe the highly remarkable exception which is made in the following sentence:--
「因为我对自己作为原创思想家的能力,向来持谦逊的看法,_除了在抽象科学(逻辑学、形而上学,以及政治经济学与政治学的理论原则)方面。_」
"For I had always a humble opinion of my own powers as an original thinker, except in abstract science (logic, metaphysics, and the theoretic principles of political economy and politics.)"
既然穆勒在逻辑学、形而上学以及经济学与政治学科学方面是一位原创思想家,显然他并非从她口中习得这些知识。
If Mill then was an original thinker in logic, metaphysics, and the science of economy and politics, it is clear that he had not learnt these from her lips.
而对大多数人来说,逻辑学与形而上学可以有把握地被视为一个领域,在此领域中,思想的原创性——若能诚实地标榜的话——便是足够的卓越资格。
And to most men logic and metaphysics may be safely taken as forming a domain in which originality of thought, if it can be honestly professed, is a sufficient title of distinction.
Vocabulary
- critic
- 批评者,对某事进行评判的人
- doctrine
- 教义,信条,某种正式的思想体系
- hardly
- 几乎不,表示程度极低
- qualified
- 有资格的,具备必要条件或能力的
- admissions
- 承认,对某事实的坦白认可
- actual
- 实际的,真实发生的
- revolution
- 革命,思想或社会的根本性变革
- modes
- 方式,模式,某种思考或行为的方法
- influence
- 影响,对他人思想或行为的作用
- paramount
- 至高无上的,最重要的,凌驾一切的
- curiously
- 奇怪地,令人感到好奇或惊讶地
- humble
- 谦逊的,对自身评价低调的
- estimate
- 评价,估计,对某事物的判断
- powers
- 能力,才能,个人的智识或体力
- attention
- 注意,关注,call attention to意为引起注意
- sight
- 视野,at first sight意为乍看之下
- contradicted
- 与……矛盾,与之前说法相抵触
- literary
- 文学的,与文学写作相关的
- performed
- 履行,执行,完成某职责
- office
- 职责,职能,所承担的角色
- relation
- 关系,与某人或某物的联系
- period
- 时期,一段特定的时间
- domain
- 领域,范畴,某一专业或思想的范围
- thought
- 思想,思维,思考的成果
- interpreter
- 诠释者,解释和传达他人思想的人
- original
- 原创的,具有独特创见的
- thinkers
- 思想家,从事深入思考的人
- mediator
- 调解者,居中沟通传达的人
- oracle
- 神谕者,被视为权威智慧源泉的人
- observe
- 注意,请注意,提请读者关注某点
- remarkable
- 值得注意的,非凡的,引人注目的
- exception
- 例外,不符合一般规律的情况
- opinion
- 意见,看法,个人的判断或观点
- thinker
- 思想家,从事深刻思考的人
- abstract
- 抽象的,与具体事物无关的理论性
- logic
- 逻辑学,研究推理规则的学科
- metaphysics
- 形而上学,研究存在本质的哲学分支
- theoretic
- 理论性的,基于理论而非实践的
- principles
- 原则,原理,基本规律或准则
- political
- 政治的,与政治相关的
- economy
- 经济学,研究生产分配的学科
- politics
- 政治,政治活动或政治理论
- learnt
- 学到,learn的过去分词(英式拼写)
- safely
- 放心地,有把握地,没有风险地
- originality
- 独创性,具有创新和原创思想的特质
- honestly
- 诚实地,真诚地,坦率地
- professed
- 声称,公开宣称拥有某能力或信仰
- sufficient
- 足够的,充分的,满足需要的
- title
- 称号,资格,获得某种名誉的依据
- distinction
- 卓越,杰出,与众不同的优秀成就
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