Pride and Prejudice — Page 8
如果愤世嫉俗意味着能看到'事物的另一面',感受到'被接受的地狱深藏其下',意识到动机几乎总是复杂的,而表象与本质并不相同——如果这就是愤世嫉俗,那么每一个不是傻瓜、不愿活在虚幻天堂中、了解自然与世界和人生的男男女女,都是愤世嫉俗者。
If cynicism means the perception of "the other side," the sense of "the accepted hells beneath," the consciousness that motives are nearly always mixed, and that to seem is not identical with to be--if this be cynicism, then every man and woman who is not a fool, who does not care to live in a fool's paradise, who has knowledge of nature and the world and life, is a cynic.
从这个意义上说,奥斯汀小姐无疑是一个愤世嫉俗者。她甚至可能在更深层的意义上也是如此——就像她笔下的班纳特先生一样,她以一种享乐主义的愉悦,解剖、展示并驱使她那些愚蠢的人物和卑鄙的人物各显其能。
And in that sense Miss Austen certainly was one. She may even have been one in the further sense that, like her own Mr. Bennet, she took an epicurean delight in dissecting, in displaying, in setting at work her fools and her mean persons.
我认为她确实从中获得了这种乐趣,而就她作为一个女性而言,我并不因此对她有丝毫看轻,反而认为这使她作为一位艺术家获益匪浅。
I think she did take this delight, and I do not think at all the worse of her for it as a woman, while she was immensely the better for it as an artist.
关于她的艺术总体而言,戈德温·史密斯先生曾一针见血地指出,'在描绘其艺术的完美性时,所有的比喻都已用尽,而这完美性与她题材领域的狭窄并存';他还恰当地补充道,我们无需超越她自己将其比作微型画艺术的说法。
In respect of her art generally, Mr. Goldwin Smith has truly observed that "metaphor has been exhausted in depicting the perfection of it, combined with the narrowness of her field;" and he has justly added that we need not go beyond her own comparison to the art of a miniature painter.
要使后一个说法完全准确,我们不能在狭义上使用'微型画'这个词,而应该更多地联想到绘画史上一端的梅姆林和另一端的梅索尼耶,而不是科斯韦或任何与他相类的画家。
To make this latter observation quite exact we must not use the term miniature in its restricted sense, and must think rather of Memling at one end of the history of painting and Meissonier at the other, than of Cosway or any of his kind.
Vocabulary
- if
- 表示条件或假设的连词
- cynicism
- 对他人动机持怀疑态度的倾向或哲学
- means
- 表示方法、工具或意思
- the
- 英语定冠词,用于特指名词
- perception
- 通过感官获得的认知或理解
- of
- 表示所有格或关系的介词
- other
- 另一个的,不同的
- side
- 事物的一个方面或边缘部分
- sense
- 感觉、理解或逻辑意义
- accepted
- 被认可或普遍同意的
- motives
- 促使人采取行动的原因或动力
- are
- 动词be的第二人称或复数形式
- nearly
- 几乎,接近于
- always
- 始终,每次都
- mixed
- 混合的,复杂的
- and
- 表示并列关系的连词
- to
- 动词不定式标记或介词
- seem
- 看起来,似乎
- is
- 动词be的第三人称单数形式
- not
- 否定词,表示否定
- identical
- 完全相同的,一模一样的
- with
- 与...一起或具有
- be
- 存在,是
- every
- 每一个,全部的
- man
- 男人或人类
- woman
- 女人或妇女
- who
- 谁,用于引导关系从句
- fool
- 愚蠢的人或傻瓜
- does
- 助动词do的第三人称单数
- care
- 关心、照顾或在乎
- live
- 生活或居住
- in
- 在...里面或内部
- paradise
- 天堂或极其美好的地方
- has
- 动词have的第三人称单数
- knowledge
- 知识或了解
- nature
- 自然界或事物的本质
- world
- 世界或地球
- life
- 生命或人生经历
- cynic
- 认为他人动机都是自私的人
- Miss
- 小姐或未婚女性的敬称
- certainly
- 当然,肯定地
- She
- 她,女性代词
- may
- 可能或表示许可的助动词
- even
- 甚至或表示强调
- been
- be的过去分词形式
- further
- 更远的或进一步的
- like
- 喜欢或类似于
- her
- 她的或她,女性代词所有格
- own
- 自己的或拥有
- Mr
- 先生,男性的敬称
- took
- take的过去式,拿或采取
- an
- 不定冠词a的变体
- epicurean
- 追求美食享乐的或快乐主义的
- delight
- 高兴或令人愉快的事物
- dissecting
- 解剖或仔细分析
- displaying
- 展示或陈列
- setting
- 放置或背景环境
- at
- 在,表示位置或时间
- work
- 工作或起作用
- persons
- 人,persons是person的复数形式
- think
- 思考或认为
- did
- do的过去式
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