Second Treatise of Government — Page 5
没有什么比向君主和人民传播关于政府的错误观念更大的危害了；希望所有时代都不必再抱怨教会之鼓的为害。
that there cannot be done a greater mischief to prince and people, than the propagating wrong notions concerning government; that so at last all times might not have reason to complain of the Drum Ecclesiastic.
如果任何真正关心真理的人，着手反驳我的假说，我承诺：若经公正的论证使我信服，我将收回我的错误；或者回应他提出的难题。
If any one, concerned really for truth, undertake the confutation of my Hypothesis, I promise him either to recant my mistake, upon fair conviction; or to answer his difficulties.
但他必须记住两点。
But he must remember two things.
第一，在我的论述中对某些措辞或细枝末节的吹毛求疵，并不构成对我这本书的回答。
First, That cavilling here and there, at some expression, or little incident of my discourse, is not an answer to my book.
第二，我不会将谩骂视为论据，也不认为这两者中的任何一个值得我关注；尽管如此，对于任何在此问题上出于良知而持审慎态度、并能提出合理疑虑依据的人，我始终认为自己有义务给予满意的回应。
Secondly, That I shall not take railing for arguments, nor think either of these worth my notice, though I shall always look on myself as bound to give satisfaction to any one, who shall appear to be conscientiously scrupulous in the point, and shall shew any just grounds for his scruples.
我还需告知读者，书中"Observations"一词代表《对霍布斯、弥尔顿等人的评论》，而单纯引用页码时，均指其《父权论》1680年版的页码。
I have nothing more, but to advertise the reader, that Observations stands for Observations on Hobbs, Milton, &c. and that a bare quotation of pages always means pages of his Patriarcha, Edition 1680.
Vocabulary
- mischief
- 危害、祸害；造成损害的行为
- prince
- 王子或君主，指统治者
- propagating
- 传播、散布（思想或信息）
- notions
- 观念、想法；对某事的理解
- complain
- 抱怨、投诉，表达不满
- Drum
- 鼓；此处指《教会之鼓》，一部政治讽刺作品
- Ecclesiastic
- 教会的、宗教的；教会人士
- concerned
- 关心的、关注的；有关的
- undertake
- 承担、着手进行某项任务
- confutation
- 驳斥、反驳；证明某观点错误
- Hypothesis
- 假说、假设；待验证的理论
- recant
- 公开撤回或放弃之前的观点
- conviction
- 使人信服；坚定的信念或确信
- cavilling
- 吹毛求疵、无理挑剔地批评
- expression
- 表达方式、措辞；语言表述
- incident
- 附带的、次要的；偶发事件
- discourse
- 论述、演说；系统的书面或口头讨论
- railing
- 辱骂性的、粗鲁谩骂的言辞
- arguments
- 论点、论据；argument的复数
- worth
- 值得……的；具有某种价值
- bound
- 有义务的、有责任的；被约束的
- satisfaction
- 满意；令人满足的答复或解释
- conscientiously
- 认真负责地、凭良心地做事
- scrupulous
- 一丝不苟的；有顾虑的，谨慎的
- shew
- show的古体拼法，表示展示、说明
- grounds
- 理由、根据；ground的复数形式
- scruples
- 顾虑、疑虑；道德上的不安感
- advertise
- （古义）告知、通知；提醒读者注意
- Observations
- 观察、见解；书中的论述或评注
- Hobbs
- 霍布斯，英国著名政治哲学家
- Milton
- 弥尔顿，英国著名诗人及政论作家
- &c
- 等等，et cetera的缩写形式
- bare
- 仅仅的、单纯的；bare quotation指单纯引用
- quotation
- 引用、引文；引述他人的文字
- Patriarcha
- 《族长论》，菲尔默的政治理论著作
- Edition
- 版本，书籍出版的特定版次
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