The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete — Page 15
另一方面，如果他屈从于感激或深情的冲动——这种冲动往往容易夸大其词——仅仅倾吐内心真实的情感，世人也不会体谅他情感的热烈，反而会将他所给予的赞美归咎于私利与卑劣的奉承。
On the other hand, should he yield to the transports of gratitude or affection, which is always apt to exaggerate, and produce no more than the genuine effusions of his heart, the world will make no allowance for the warmth of his passion, but ascribe the praise he bestows to interested views and sordid adulation.
有时，他被某个人物表面的浮华所迷惑，却无从深入了解其真实品性，于是将满腔仰慕之情倾注于某位虚伪的庇护者，而此人日后的行为却使他的颂词不攻自破，令他陷入羞愧与狼狈之中。
Sometimes too, dazzled by the tinsel of a character which he has no opportunity to investigate, he pours forth the homage of his admiration upon some false Maecenas, whose future conduct gives the lie to his eulogium, and involves him in shame and confusion of face.
一位近代才华横溢的作者（即《四季》的作者）便遭遇了这样的命运——他因受热情气质的驱使、被大众的喝彩所误导，屡屡为自己所奉上的不实颂词而赧颜，以至于他决意在遗嘱中撤回所有那些过早给出的溢美之词，并点名批评那些不配受誉之人——这本是一项值得称道的诗文公道之举，却不幸因英年早逝而未能付诸实施。
Such was the fate of a late ingenious author [the Author of the "Seasons"], who was so often put to the blush for the undeserved incense he had offered in the heat of an enthusiastic disposition, misled by popular applause, that he had resolved to retract, in his last will, all the encomiums which he had thus prematurely bestowed, and stigmatise the unworthy by name—a laudable scheme of poetical justice, the execution of which was fatally prevented by untimely death.
无论其他题献者命运如何，我本人在落笔写下这篇献辞时，丝毫不担忧蒙羞或失望；因为我深知，您对我的深情厚谊与真诚坦率早已心知肚明，绝不会对我就您的品格与行为所言之事心存不满。
Whatever may have been the fate of other dedicators, I, for my own part, sit down to write this address, without any apprehension of disgrace or disappointment; because I know you are too well convinced of my affection and sincerity to repine at what I shall say touching your character and conduct.
Vocabulary
- on
- 在…上；关于；正在进行
- the
- 定冠词，表示特定的人或物
- other
- 另外的；其他的
- hand
- 手；一方面
- should
- 应该；可能
- he
- 他
- yield
- 屈服；让步；产生
- to
- 到；向；对于
- transports
- 运输；强烈的感情
- of
- 的；属于
- gratitude
- 感谢；感恩之心
- or
- 或者；或
- affection
- 喜爱；感情；感染
- which
- 哪一个；那个
- is
- 是
- always
- 总是；一直
- apt
- 恰当的；容易的；倾向于
- exaggerate
- 夸大；夸张；言过其实
- and
- 和；与；并且
- produce
- 生产；产生；制造
- no
- 没有；不
- more
- 更多的；再也不
- than
- 比；胜于
- genuine
- 真正的；真实的；不假的
- his
- 他的
- heart
- 心；心脏；中心
- world
- 世界；世人；人世
- will
- 将；意愿；遗嘱
- make
- 制造；使；做
- allowance
- 津贴；允许；考虑
- for
- 为了；对于；因为
- warmth
- 温暖；热情；热度
- passion
- 激情；热情；强烈的感情
- but
- 但是；然而
- ascribe
- 归因于；认为…是由于
- praise
- 赞扬；表扬；颂扬
- bestows
- 赠予；给予；授予
- interested
- 有兴趣的；利己的
- views
- 观点；看法；景色
- sordid
- 肮脏的；卑鄙的；不光彩的
- adulation
- 奉承；谄媚；过度的赞美
- sometimes
- 有时；有时候
- too
- 太；也；过分
- dazzled
- 眼花缭乱；被耀眼之物吸引
- by
- 被；由；通过
- character
- 性格；特征；人物
- has
- 有；已经
- opportunity
- 机会；机遇
- investigate
- 调查；研究；查证
- pours
- 倒；灌；流出
- forth
- 向外；前进；今后
- homage
- 尊敬；敬意；致敬
- admiration
- 赞叹；钦佩；羡慕
- upon
- 在…上；在…时
- some
- 一些；某个
- false
- 虚假的；错误的；不真诚的
- whose
- 谁的；其……的
- future
- 未来；将来；前景
- conduct
- 行为；举止；进行
- gives
- 给；赋予；产生
- lie
- 谎言；躺；位于
- involves
- 涉及；牵连；使…陷入
- him
- 他
- in
- 在…内；用…
- shame
- 羞愧；耻辱；令人遗憾的事
- confusion
- 混乱；混淆；困惑
- face
- 脸；面对；表面
- such
- 这样的；那样的；如此的
- was
- 是；曾是
- fate
- 命运；遭遇；结局
- late
- 晚的；已故的；迟到的
- ingenious
- 聪慧的；灵巧的；独出心裁的
- author
- 作者；作家；创始人
- Author
- 作者；作家；创始人
- Seasons
- 季节；时期；赛季
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