The Souls of Black Folk — Page 7
那么,这就是他奋斗的终极目标:成为文化王国中的共同创造者,既摆脱死亡,又逃离孤立,珍视并充分发挥自己最卓越的才能与潜在的天赋。
This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.
这些身心方面的力量,在过去曾以奇异的方式被白白浪费、四散消耗,或遭人遗忘。
These powers of body and mind have in the past been strangely wasted, dispersed, or forgotten.
一个强大的黑人历史的影子,在神秘的埃塞俄比亚与斯芬克斯之国埃及的传说中若隐若现。
The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the Shadowy and of Egypt the Sphinx.
纵观历史,一个个黑人杰出人物的光芒,在这里或那里如流星般闪现,有时还未等世人充分认识到他们的光辉,便已消逝殆尽。
Through history, the powers of single black men flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.
在美国,自解放以来短短的这些年里,黑人在彷徨与疑虑中左顾右盼、四处挣扎,这往往使他本有的力量丧失效用,看起来像是软弱无力,毫无能量。
Here in America, in the few days since Emancipation, the black man's turning hither and thither in hesitant and doubtful striving has often made his very strength to lose effectiveness, to seem like absence of power, like weakness.
然而这并非软弱,——而是双重目标之间的矛盾与冲突。
And yet it is not weakness,—it is the contradiction of double aims.
黑人工匠面临双重目标的挣扎——一方面要摆脱白人对一个仅仅是砍柴挑水之民族的蔑视,另一方面又要为一群贫困潦倒的人耕田、钉钉、挖土——这只能使他沦为一个拙劣的工匠,因为他对两件事都无法全心以赴。
The double-aimed struggle of the black artisan—on the one hand to escape white contempt for a nation of mere hewers of wood and drawers of water, and on the other hand to plough and nail and dig for a poverty-stricken horde—could only result in making him a poor craftsman, for he had but half a heart in either cause.
由于本族人民的贫穷与无知,黑人牧师或医生往往被诱导走向江湖骗术与蛊惑人心之道;而来自外部世界的批评,则又驱使他们追求某种理想,使他们为自己卑微的工作感到羞耻。
By the poverty and ignorance of his people, the Negro minister or doctor was tempted toward quackery and demagogy; and by the criticism of the other world, toward ideals that made him ashamed of his lowly tasks.
Vocabulary
- this
- 指代近处的人或物
- then
- 那时;其次;然后
- is
- be动词第三人称单数现在式
- the
- 定冠词,表示特定的人或物
- end
- 结束;末尾;终点
- of
- 表示属于、来自或关于某物
- his
- 他的;属于男性的物品
- striving
- 努力;奋力争取;竭力尝试
- to
- 不定式标记;朝向;到达
- be
- 存在;是;成为
- co-worker
- 共同工作者;同事;合作伙伴
- in
- 在...里面;属于;穿着
- kingdom
- 王国;领域;生物分类的最大单位
- culture
- 文化;修养;培养;种植
- escape
- 逃脱;逃避;躲避
- both
- 两者都;双方都
- death
- 死亡;死;终结
- and
- 和;与;而且
- isolation
- 隔离;孤立;独立
- husband
- 丈夫;妻子的男性配偶
- use
- 使用;利用;运用
- best
- 最好的;最佳的;最优的
- powers
- 能力;力量;权力;权势
- latent
- 潜在的;隐藏的;未表现的
- genius
- 天才;天赋;聪慧;才能
- These
- 这些;这样的多个人或物
- body
- 身体;躯体;物体;团体
- mind
- 思想;心理;头脑;注意
- have
- 有;拥有;持有
- past
- 过去;以前;经过
- been
- be动词的过去分词形式
- strangely
- 奇怪地;古怪地;陌生地
- wasted
- 浪费的;消耗的;虚弱的
- dispersed
- 分散的;散开的;驱散
- or
- 或者;或;要不
- forgotten
- 被遗忘的;忘记的
- The
- 定冠词,用于特定事物
- shadow
- 影子;阴影;幻影
- mighty
- 强大的;有力的;强有力
- flits
- 闪过;轻快移动;掠过
- through
- 通过;穿过;经由
- tale
- 故事;传说;叙述
- Shadowy
- 影子般的;昏暗的;模糊的
- history
- 历史;过去;履历
- single
- 单个的;一个的;未婚
- black
- 黑色的;黑人的
- men
- 男人;人类;成年男性
- flash
- 闪光;闪现;突然出现
- here
- 这里;此处;在这地方
- there
- 那里;那个地方;存在
- like
- 喜欢;像;类似于
- falling
- 下落的;下降的;衰落
- stars
- 星星;恒星;明星
- die
- 死亡;消失;渴望
- sometimes
- 有时;间或;偶尔
- before
- 在...之前;以前;面前
- world
- 世界;地球;人间
- rightly
- 正确地;恰当地;应该
- gauged
- 测量的;估计的;判断
- their
- 他们的;她们的;它们的
- brightness
- 光亮;明亮;聪慧
- Here
- 这里;此处;注意听
- America
- 美国;美洲大陆
- few
- 少数的;少许的;几个
- days
- 天;日子;时代
- since
- 自从;因为;既然
- Emancipation
- 解放;获得自由;独立
- man
- 男人;人;成年男性
- turning
- 转动的;转弯处;转折
- hesitant
- 犹豫的;迟疑的;不确定
- doubtful
- 怀疑的;不确定的;有疑问
- often
- 经常;常常;多次
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