The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere — Page 3

西班牙民族性格中的轻盈活泼，以及其东方色彩的底蕴、应对新局面时的随机应变、与温暖地带居民打交道时的灵活适应，在这场征服中与其他征服一样，都发挥了各自的作用。

The lightness and vivacity of the Spanish character, with its strain of Orientalism, its fertility of resource in meeting new conditions, its adaptability in dealing with the dwellers in warmer lands, all played their part in this as in the other conquests.

只有在遭遇顽强抵抗的情况下，例如在马尼拉及其周边地区——那里居住着最为文明开化的土著民众，伊斯兰教的若干形式与信仰也已在此扎根——才有必要诉诸武力，消灭土著首领，以传教神父取而代之。

Only on occasions when some stubborn resistance was met with, as in Manila and the surrounding country, where the most advanced of the native peoples dwelt and where some of the forms and beliefs of Islam had been established, was it necessary to resort to violence to destroy the native leaders and replace them with the missionary fathers.

年轻的萨尔塞多——菲律宾征服中的科尔特斯——率领一支精锐步兵部队进行了数次出击，而这支步兵在当时令整个尚武的欧洲既钦羡又绝望，很快便彻底打消了即便是最勇猛、最顽固的土著首领心中可能存有的任何抵抗念头。

A few sallies by young Salcedo, the Cortez of the Philippine conquest, with a company of the splendid infantry, which was at that time the admiration and despair of martial Europe, soon effectively exorcised any idea of resistance that even the boldest and most intransigent of the native leaders might have entertained.

在大多数情况下，要将一个单纯、富于想象力且信奉宿命论的民族从几位模糊的万物有灵论神祇引导至西班牙教会那体系完整的圣像崇拜与繁复精细的礼仪，并不需要费多大口舌。

For the most part, no great persuasion was needed to turn a simple, imaginative, fatalistic people from a few vague animistic deities to the systematic iconology and the elaborate ritual of the Spanish Church.

一位模糊不清的"巴塔拉"或一位朦胧的"马里亚里"，很容易便被轮廓分明的"迪奥斯"所取代或转化；而若遇到某个格外顽固的"恶魔"，也不难将其并入某位基督教圣徒或魔鬼之中。

An obscure Bathala or a dim Malyari was easily superseded by or transformed into a clearly defined Dios, and in the case of any especially tenacious "demon," he could without much difficulty be merged into a Christian saint or devil.