The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere — Page 2
试图将永恒的女性气质从其在事物秩序中自然而正常的领域中消除，这一举动遭遇了同样确定而显著的灾难——这种灾难等待着每一种对人类活动的扭曲。
The attempt to eliminate the eternal feminine from her natural and normal sphere in the scheme of things there met with the same certain and signal disaster that awaits every perversion of human activity.
这场运动起初由一群热忱而认真的人组成，他们真诚地坚守信念，将事业视为一切，将个人置于无足轻重之地，
Beginning with a band of zealous, earnest men, sincere in their convictions, to whom the cause was all and their personalities nothing,
它在那里，如同在其他地方一样，经历了其惯常的循环：有用、停滞、腐败，最终走向堕落。
it there, as elsewhere, passed through its usual cycle of usefulness, stagnation, corruption, and degeneration.
西班牙在很大程度上将其对菲律宾群岛的统治归功于早期修士们无私而英勇的努力，
To the unselfish and heroic efforts of the early friars Spain in large measure owed her dominion over the Philippine Islands
而菲律宾人也因此在走向文明与民族认同的道路上取得了显著的进步。
and the Filipinos a marked advance on the road to civilization and nationality.
事实上，当从黄金和香料中突然致富的梦想破灭之后，这些岛屿的保留主要是作为传教征服的成果，以及通往亚洲更广阔领域的跳板，
In fact, after the dreams of sudden wealth from gold and spices had faded, the islands were retained chiefly as a missionary conquest and a stepping-stone to the broader fields of Asia,
马尼拉则作为东方贸易的集散地。
with Manila as a depot for the Oriental trade.
那些早年的记录中充满了勇气与英雄主义的故事，足以媲美西班牙最辉煌的岁月，
The records of those early years are filled with tales of courage and heroism worthy of Spain's proudest years,
传教士神父们以不懈的热忱，无私地致力于传播信仰，并改善他们所处的马来人的生活状况。
as the missionary fathers labored with unflagging zeal in disinterested endeavor for the spread of the Faith and the betterment of the condition of the Malays among whom they found themselves.
他们赢得了当地人民的信任，将他们聚集到定居点和村落中，引导他们走上和平之路，并成为他们的保护者、向导与顾问。
They won the confidence of the native peoples, gathered them into settlements and villages, led them into the ways of peace, and became their protectors, guides, and counselors.
在那个年代，十字架与剑并肩而行，但在菲律宾，后者却鲜少需要或被使用。
In those times the cross and the sword went hand in hand, but in the Philippines the latter was rarely needed or used.
Vocabulary
- attempt
- 尝试、努力做某事
- eliminate
- 消除、排除、去掉
- eternal
- 永恒的、永久的、不变的
- feminine
- 女性的、女人特有的特征
- natural
- 自然的、天生的、非人工的
- normal
- 正常的、通常的、标准的
- sphere
- 球体、领域、范围、活动范围
- scheme
- 计划、方案、阴谋
- met
- 遇见、碰到、满足
- same
- 相同的、同样的
- certain
- 某个、确定的、必然的
- signal
- 信号、标志、显著的
- disaster
- 灾难、灾祸、失败
- awaits
- 等待、即将发生
- every
- 每个、每一个
- perversion
- 歪曲、变态、不正常
- human
- 人类的、人的、人性
- activity
- 活动、行为、活跃
- Beginning
- 开始、起初、初期
- band
- 乐队、条带、一群
- zealous
- 热情的、积极的、狂热的
- earnest
- 认真的、诚挚的、坚定的
- sincere
- 真诚的、坦率的、真实的
- convictions
- 信念、确信、定罪
- whom
- 谁（宾格）、人
- cause
- 原因、事业、导致
- personalities
- 个性、人格、名人
- nothing
- 无、没什么、不重要
- elsewhere
- 在别处、他处、其他地方
- passed
- 通过、经过、去世
- usual
- 通常的、一般的、平常的
- cycle
- 循环、周期、自行车
- usefulness
- 有用性、效用、实用性
- stagnation
- 停滞、不流动、衰退
- corruption
- 腐败、腐蚀、堕落
- degeneration
- 退化、恶化、变质
- unselfish
- 无私的、不自私的、慷慨的
- heroic
- 英雄的、英勇的、壮烈的
- efforts
- 努力、尝试、成果
- early
- 早期的、初期的、早
- friars
- 修士、方济各会修士
- large
- 大的、广大的、数量多的
- measure
- 措施、程度、衡量
- owed
- 欠、应该、是...的结果
- dominion
- 统治、领地、主权
- Islands
- 岛屿、群岛
- marked
- 显著的、标记的、明显的
- advance
- 前进、进展、预付
- road
- 道路、途径、航线
- civilization
- 文明、文化、城市
- nationality
- 国籍、民族、国民性
- fact
- 事实、实际、真相
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