The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere — Page 15
这片土地和这里的人民，也以一种迷人的朴实笔触加以描绘——那是一双看得清晰的眼睛、一颗深思熟虑的头脑，以及一颗充满同情共鸣的心。
The country and the people, too, are described with the charming simplicity of the eyes that see clearly, the brain that ponders deeply, and the heart that beats sympathetically.
在他叙述的字里行间，始终流淌着一股平和与满足的宁静旋律，对现存秩序的认可，因为他曾凝视这片造化，并认为它是美好的。
Through all the pages of his account runs the quiet strain of peace and contentment, of satisfaction with the existing order, for he had looked upon the creation and saw that it was good.
其中「既无急躁，也无仇恨，更无愤怒」，有的只是对事实从容的叙述，被一颗灵魂的温厚所温暖照亮——岁月与阅历带给他的，不是酸涩的愤世嫉俗，而是一种成熟哲思的醇厚影响。
There is "neither haste, nor hate, nor anger," but the deliberate recital of the facts warmed and illumined by the geniality of a soul to whom age and experience had brought, not a sour cynicism, but the mellowing influence of a ripened philosophy.
他就是那样一位老人，令人不禁遐想他迈着庄重安详的步伐，漫步于帕拉纳克的街道，在他所守护的棕色皮肤人民的敬畏与尊重之中。
He was such an old man as may fondly be imagined walking through the streets of Paranaque in stately benignity amid the fear and respect of the brown people over whom he watched.
然而在他的全部记述中，没有任何地方暗示还有什么值得期盼的，任何超越现状的东西。
But in all his chronicle there is no suggestion of anything more to hope for, anything beyond.
这幅图景固然美好，却描绘的是一个已达到成熟顶点的体制：那是停滞的状态，而非成长。
Beautiful as the picture is, it is that of a system which had reached maturity: a condition of stagnation, not of growth.
不到十年，欧洲政治的剧烈动荡便波及了遥远的菲律宾，随之而来的是人民与统治者之间逐渐疏离——起初是盲目的摸索与无序的徘徊，但那股趋势却始终坚持而有力。
In less than a decade, the terrific convulsions in European politics made themselves felt even in the remote Philippines, and then began the gradual drawing away of the people from their rulers--blind gropings and erratic wanderings at first, but nevertheless persistent and vigorous tendencies.
Vocabulary
- country
- 国家或乡村地区
- people
- 人民或人们
- too
- 也，同样
- described
- 被描述或被描绘
- charming
- 迷人的、有魅力的
- simplicity
- 简单、朴素、简洁
- eyes
- 眼睛
- see
- 看见、观察
- clearly
- 清楚地、明确地
- brain
- 大脑、思考能力
- ponders
- 思考、沉思
- deeply
- 深深地、深刻地
- heart
- 心脏、心
- beats
- 跳动、击打
- sympathetically
- 同情地、感同身受地
- Through
- 通过、穿过
- all
- 全部、所有
- pages
- 页面、书页
- account
- 描述、叙述、账户
- runs
- 跑、运行、贯穿
- quiet
- 安静的、宁静的
- strain
- 压力、声调、旋律
- peace
- 和平、安宁
- contentment
- 满足、满意
- satisfaction
- 满足、满意
- existing
- 现存的、存在的
- order
- 秩序、命令、订单
- looked
- 看、观察
- upon
- 在...上、对...
- creation
- 创造、创作、宇宙
- saw
- 看见、锯
- good
- 好的、善良的
- There
- 那里、存在
- neither
- 既不...也不...
- haste
- 匆忙、仓促
- nor
- 也不
- hate
- 恨、讨厌
- anger
- 愤怒、生气
- deliberate
- 深思熟虑的、故意的
- recital
- 叙述、讲述、朗诵
- facts
- 事实、事情
- warmed
- 温暖的、热的
- illumined
- 照亮、阐明
- geniality
- 和蔼可亲、温和友善
- soul
- 灵魂、心灵
- whom
- 谁
- age
- 年龄、时代
- experience
- 经验、经历
- brought
- 带来、引起
- sour
- 酸的、不愉快的
- cynicism
- 愤世嫉俗、犬儒主义
- mellowing
- 温和、成熟
- influence
- 影响、影响力
- ripened
- 成熟的、熟透的
- philosophy
- 哲学、人生观
- such
- 这样的、如此的
- old
- 老的、旧的
- man
- 男人、人
- as
- 当...时、如同
- may
- 可能、也许
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