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马克吐温的名言英文版1. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.2. Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience:this is the ideal life.3. The secret of getting ahead is getting started.4. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.5. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.6. The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.7. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.The world owes you nothing. It was here first.8. Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.9. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.10. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.11. The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.12. Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.13. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.14. Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.15. The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.16. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.17. Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.18. There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.19. To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.20. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.21. A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.22. The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.23. The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.24. The lack of money is the root of all evil.25. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.26. Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.27. When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.28. The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.29. The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.30. There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.31. When in doubt, tell the truth.32. The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.33. There are lies, damned lies and statistics.34. It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.35. The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.36. Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.37. Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.38. Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.39. If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.40. The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.41. Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.42. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.43. There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.44. Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.45. The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.46. Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.47. A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.48. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.49. Out of the public schools grows the greatness of a nation.50. Repartee is something we think of 24 hours too late.51. Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.52. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.53. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.。
Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure. In—deed, this nation's best-loved author was every bit as ad—venturous, patriotic, romantic, and humorous as anyone has ever imagined. I found another Twain as well – one who grew cynical, bitter, saddened by the profound personal tragedies life dealt him, a man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race, who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night。
在大多数美国人的心目中,马克•吐温是位伟大作家,他描写了哈克•费恩永恒的童年时代中充满诗情画意的旅程和汤姆•索亚在漫长的夏日里自由自在历险探奇的故事。
的确,这位美国最受人喜爱的作家的探索精神、爱国热情、浪漫气质及幽默笔调都达到了登峰造极的程度。
但我发现还有另一个不同的马克•吐温-—一个由于深受人生悲剧的打击而变得愤世嫉俗、尖酸刻薄的马克•吐温,一个为人类品质上的弱点而忧心忡忡、明显地看到前途是一片黑暗的人。
Tramp printer, river pilot , Confederate guerrilla, prospector, starry—eyed optimist, acid-tongued cynic: The man who became Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens and he ranged across the nation for more than a third of his life, digesting the new American experience before sharing it with the world as writer and lecturer. He adopted his pen name from the cry heard in his steamboat days,signaling two fathoms (12 feet) of water -- a navigable depth. His popularity is attested by the fact that more than a score of his books remain in print, and translations are still read around the world. 印刷工、领航员、邦联游击队员、淘金者、耽于幻想的乐天派、语言尖刻的讽刺家:马克•吐温原名塞缪尔•朗赫恩•克莱门斯,他一生之中有超过三分之一的时间浪迹美国各地,体验着美国的新生活,尔后便以作家和演说家的身分将他所感受到的这一切介绍给全世界。
Mark Twain-the Mirror of AmericaMost Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure. In-deed, this nation's best-loved author was every bit as ad-venturous, patriotic, romantic, and humorous as anyone has ever imagined. I found another Twain as well –one who grew cynical, bitter, saddened by the profound personal tragedies life dealt him, a man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race, who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night.在大多数美国人的心目中,马克?吐温是位伟大作家,他描写了哈克?费恩永恒的童年时代中充满诗情画意的旅程与汤姆?索亚在漫长的夏日里自由自在历险探奇的故事。
的确,这位美国最受人喜爱的作家的探索精神、爱国热情、浪漫气质及幽默笔调都达到了登峰造极的程度。
但我发现还有另一个不同的马克?吐温——一个由于深受人生悲剧的打击而变得愤世嫉俗、尖酸刻薄的马克?吐温,一个为人类品质上的弱点而忧心忡忡、明显地看到前途是一片黑暗的人。
Tramp printer, river pilot , Confederate guerrilla, prospector, starry-eyed optimist, acid-tongued cynic: The man who became Mark Twain was born SamuelLanghorne Clemens and he ranged across the nation for more than a third of his life, digesting the new American experience before sharing it with the world as writer and lecturer. He adopted his pen name from the cry heard in his steamboat days, signaling two fathoms (12 feet) of water -- a navigable depth. His popularity is attested by the fact that more than a score of his books remain in print, and translations are still read around the world.印刷工、领航员、邦联游击队员、淘金者、耽于幻想的乐天派、语言尖刻的讽刺家:马克?吐温原名塞缪尔?朗赫恩?克莱门斯,他一生之中有超过三分之一的时间浪迹美国各地,体验着美国的新生活,尔后便以作家与演说家的身分将他所感受到的这一切介绍给全世界。
Mark TwainOur story today is called "Luck." It was written by Mark Twain. Here is ShepO'Neal with the story.I was at a dinner in London given in honor of one of the most celebrated English military men of histime. I do not want to tell you his real name and titles. I will just call him Lieutenant General Lord ArthurScoresby.IcannotdescribemyexcitementwhenIsawthisgreatandfamousman.Therehesat,th emanhimself, in person, all covered with medals. I could not take my eyes off him. He seemed to show the truemark of greatness. His fame had no effect on him. The hundreds of eyes watching him, the worship of somany people, did not seem to make any difference to him.Next to me sat a clergyman, who was an old friend of mine. He was not always a clergyman. Duringthe first half of his life he was a teacher in the military school at Woolwich. There was a strange look in hiseye as he leaned toward me and whispered–"Privately–he is a complete fool." He meant, of course, thehero of our dinner.This came as a shock to me. I looked hard at my friend. I could not have been more surprised if hehad said the same thing about Napoleon, or Socrates, or Solomon. But I was sure of two things about theclergyman. He always spoke the truth. And, his judgment of men was good. Therefore, I wanted to findout more about our hero as soon as I could.Some days later I got a chance to talk with the clergyman, and he told me more. These are his exactwords:About forty years ago, I was an instructor in the military academy at Woolwich, when young Scoresbywas given his first examination. I felt extremely sorry for him. Everybody answered the questions well,intelligently, while he–why, dear me–he did not know anything, so to speak. He was a nice, pleasantyoung man. It was painful to see him stand there and give answers that were miracles of stupidity.I knew of course that when examined again he would fail and be thrown out. So, I said to myself, itwould be a simple, harmless act to help him as much as I could.ItookhimasideandfoundheknewalittleaboutJuliusCaesar'shistory.But,hedidnotkn owanything else. So, I went to work and tested him and worked him like a slave. I made him work, over andover again, on a few questions about Caesar, which I knew he would be asked.If you will believe me, he came through very well on the day of the examination. He got highpraisetoo,whileotherswhoknewathousandtimesmorethanheweresharplycriticized.Bys omestrange,lucky accident, he was asked no questions but those I made him study. Such an accident does not happenmore than once in a hundred years.Well, all through his studies, I stood by him, with the feeling a mother has for adisabled child. And healways saved himself by some miracle.I thought that what in the end would destroy him would be the mathematics examination. I decidedto make his end as painless as possible. So, I pushed facts into his stupid head for hours. Finally, I let himgo to the examination to experience what I was sure would be his dismissal from school. Well, sir, try toimagine the result. I was shocked out of my mind. He took first prize! And he got the highest praise.I felt guilty day and night–what I was doing was not right. But I only wanted to make his dismissal alittle less painful for him. I never dreamed it would lead to such strange, laughable results.I thought that sooner or later one thing was sure to happen: The first real test once he was throughschool would ruin him.Then, the Crimean War broke out. I felt that sad for him that there had to be a war. Peace wouldhavegiventhisdonkeyachancetoescapefromeverbeingfoundoutasbeingsostupid. Nervously,Iwaited for the worst to happen. It did. He was appointed an officer. A captain, of all things! Who couldhave dreamed that they would place such a responsibility on such weak shoulders as his.I said to myself that I was responsible to the country for this. I must go with him and protect thenation against him as far as I could. So, I joined up with him. And away we went to the field.And there–oh dear, it was terrible. Mistakes, fearful mistakes–why, he never did anything that wasright–nothingbutmistakes.But,yousee,nobodyknewthesecretofhowstupidhereallywas.Every body misunderstood his actions. They saw his stupid mistakes as works of great intelligence. Theydid, honestly!His smallest mistakes made a man in his right mind cry, and shout and scream too–to himself, ofcourse. And what kept me in a continual fear was the fact that every mistake he made increased his gloryand fame. I kept saying to myself that when at last they find out about him, it will be like the sun fallingout of the sky.He continued to climb up, over the dead bodies of his superiors. Then, in the hottest moment of onebattle down went our colonel. My heart jumped into my mouth, for Scoresby was the next in line to takehis place. Now, we are in for it, I said...Thebattlegrewhotter.TheEnglishandtheir allies weresteadilyretreatingalloverthefield.Ourregiment occupied a position that was extremely important. One mistake now would bring total disaster.And what did Scoresby do this time–he just mistook his left hand for his right hand...that was all. Anorder came for him to fall back and support our right. Instead, he moved forward and went over the hill tothe left. We were over the hill before this insane movement could be discovered and stopped. And whatdid we find? A large and unsuspected Russian army waiting! And what happened–were we all killed?That is exactly what would have happened in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. But no–those surprisedRussians thought that no one regiment by itself would come around there at such a time.It must be the whole British army, they thought. They turned tail, away they went over the hill anddown into the field in wild disorder, and we after them. In no time, there was the greatest turn aroundyou ever saw. The allies turned defeat into a sweeping and shining victory.The allied commander looked on, his head spinning with wonder, surprise and joy. He sent right offfor Scoresby, and put his arms around him and hugged him on the field in front of all the armies. Scoresbybecame famous that day as a greatmilitary leader–honored throughout the world. That honor will neverdisappear while history books last.He is just as nice and pleasant as ever, but he still does not know enough to come in out of the rain.He is the stupidest man in the universe.Until now, nobody knew it but Scoresby and myself. He has been followed, day by day, year by year,by a strange luck. He has been a shining soldier in all our wars for years. He has filled his whole militarylife with mistakes. Every one of them brought him another honorary title. Look at his chest, flooded withBritish and foreign medals. Well, sir, every one of them is the record of some great stupidity or other. Theyare proof that the best thing that can happen to a man is to be born lucky. I say again, as I did at thedinner, Scoresby's a complete fool.。
1、每个人都像月亮,有着从来不让任何人看见的黑暗面。
Every man is like the moon, with the dark side that never let anyone see.2、在衣着上你可以不修边幅,但切不可让灵魂染上污点。
In the clothes you can but don't let careless about dressing, tainted soul.3、人一生中最重要的两天就是出生那天和发现人生目标的那天。
The two most important days in your life are the day when you were born, and the day when you found your purpose.4、猫与谎言最大的差别是,猫有九条命。
A cat and a lie is the biggest difference is that a cat has nine lives.5、黄金时代在我们面前而不在我们背后。
The golden age is before us, not behind us.6、医生知道的如此之少,收费却如此之高。
The doctor knows so little, the charge is so high.7、希望好像一个家庭,没有它,你会觉得生活乏味;有了它,你又觉得天天为它辛劳,是一种烦恼。
Hope seems like a family, without it, you will find life boring; with it, you feel every day for its hard work, is a kind of trouble.8、一个人若有一茶匙头脑,便会有一份傲气。
If a man has a teaspoon of the mind, there will be a pride.9、真理还在穿鞋的时候,谎言就走遍了半个世界。
Mark Twain-the Mirror of AmericaMost Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure. In-deed, this nation's best-loved author was every bit as ad-venturous, patriotic, romantic, and humorous as anyone has ever imagined. I found another Twain as well –one who grew cynical, bitter, saddened by the profound personal tragedies life dealt him, a man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race, who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night.在大多数美国人的心目中,马克?吐温是位伟大作家,他描写了哈克?费恩永恒的童年时代中充满诗情画意的旅程和汤姆?索亚在漫长的夏日里自由自在历险探奇的故事。
的确,这位美国最受人喜爱的作家的探索精神、爱国热情、浪漫气质及幽默笔调都达到了登峰造极的程度。
但我发现还有另一个不同的马克?吐温——一个由于深受人生悲剧的打击而变得愤世嫉俗、尖酸刻薄的马克?吐温,一个为人类品质上的弱点而忧心忡忡、明显地看到前途是一片黑暗的人。
Tramp printer, river pilot , Confederate guerrilla, prospector, starry-eyed optimist, acid-tongued cynic: The man who became Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens and he ranged across the nation for more than a third of his life, digesting the new American experience before sharing it with the world as writer and lecturer. He adopted his pen name from the cry heard in his steamboat days, signaling two fathoms (12 feet) of water -- a navigable depth. His popularity is attested by the fact that more than a score of his books remain in print, and translations are still read around the world.印刷工、领航员、邦联游击队员、淘金者、耽于幻想的乐天派、语言尖刻的讽刺家:马克?吐温原名塞缪尔?朗赫恩?克莱门斯,他一生之中有超过三分之一的时间浪迹美国各地,体验着美国的新生活,尔后便以作家和演说家的身分将他所感受到的这一切介绍给全世界。
一个朋友从东部来了信,我遵他的命去拜访了好脾气、爱絮叨的西蒙·威勒,打听我朋友的朋友列昂尼达斯·W·斯迈雷的下落。
这件受人之托的事究竟结果如何,我来做个交代。
事后我心里嘀咕,这位列昂尼达斯·W·斯迈雷是瞎编出来的,我朋友根本就不认识此人。
他准是琢磨着:只要我向老威勒一打听,就会让他联想起那个厚脸皮的吉姆·斯迈雷来,赶快打开话匣子把那些又臭又长、和我毫不相干的陈年旧事抖搂出来,把我顷死。
要是我朋友存心这么干,那他真是做对了。
我见到西蒙·威勒的时候,他正在破破烂烂的矿山屯子安吉尔那座歪歪斜斜的酒馆里,靠着吧台旁边的炉子舒舒服服地打盹。
我注意到他是个胖子,秃脑门,一脸安详,透着和气、朴实。
他站起身来问了声好。
我告诉他,朋友托我来打听一位儿时的密友,这人叫列昂尼达斯·W·斯迈雷——也就是列昂尼达斯·W·斯迈雷神父,听说这位年轻的福音传教士曾在安吉尔屯子里住过。
我又加了一句:要是威勒先生能告诉我这位列昂尼达斯·W·斯迈雷神父的消息,我将感激不尽。
西蒙·威勒把我逼到墙角,拿自己的椅子封住我的去路,然后讲了一通下面段落里那些枯燥无味的事情。
他脸上不露一丝笑意,眉头一皱不皱,从第一句起,他用的就是四平八稳的腔调,没有变过。
他绝不是生性就爱唠叨;因为他收不住的话头里透着认认真真、诚心诚意的感人情绪,这是明明白白地告诉我,按他的想法,别管这故事本身是不是荒唐可笑,他可是把讲故事当成一件要紧事来办,而且对故事里的两位主人公推崇备至,认为他们智谋超群。
我听凭他按照自己的路子讲下去,一直没有打断。
列昂尼达斯神父,嗯,列神父——嗯,这里从前倒是有过一个叫吉姆·斯迈雷的,那是四九年冬天——也许是五○年春天——不知道怎么闹的,我记不太清楚了,总归不是四九年就是五○年,因为他刚来到屯子的时候,那大渡槽还没造好呢;别的不说,要比谁最古怪,他算得上天下第一。
精心整理马克吐温名言(中英文)看了马克吐温的幽默故事,特别想整理一些马克吐温关于爱的名言语录,最好有中英文,马克吐温的最着名名句是什么?马克吐温名言时光荏苒是什么意思呢?马克吐温的教育名言警句让我们认识到了马克吐温的思想。
123、绝不要和愚蠢的人争论,他们会把你拖到他们那样的水平,然后回击你。
4、那些有好书却不读的人不比无法读到这些书的人拥有任何优势。
5、马克·吐温收到一封信。
这是一位青年人写来的,他想向马克·吐温请教成为大作家的诀窍。
信中说:“听说鱼含大量的磷质,而磷是有利于脑子的。
看来要成为一个大作家,一定要吃很多鱼吧?但不知道你究竟吃的什么鱼,又吃了多少呢?”马克·吐温回信说:“看来,你应该吃一条鲸鱼才行。
”678“牧9、每关闭一所学校,就得多修造一座牢狱。
10、保持身体健康的唯一办法,就是吃点你不想吃的,喝点你不想喝的,以及做点你不愿做的事情。
11、有人问美国作家马克吐温:“小错与大错有什么区别?”马克吐温答道:“如121314、每当你发现自己和大多数人站在一边,你就该停下来反思一下。
15、永远说实话,这样的话你就不用去记你曾经说过些什么。
16、一次偶然的机会,马克·吐温与雄辩家琼西·M·得彪应邀参加同一晚宴。
席上演讲开始了,琼西·M·得彪滔滔不绝,情感丰富地讲了分钟,赢得了一片热烈的掌声。
然后轮到马克·吐温演讲。
马克·吐温站起来,面有难色地说:“诸位,实在抱歉,会前琼西·M·得彪先生约我互换演讲稿,所以诸位刚才听到的是我的演讲,·得彪171819”20、人类是唯一会脸红的动物,或是唯一该脸红的动物。
21、成功之道无他﹐唯一无所知又信心十足耳。
22、有皱纹的地方只表示微笑曾在那儿呆过23”24“穿越鼻祖”不是马克·吐温,而是明末中国人董说25、马克·吐温外出乘车。
Mark Twain-the Mirror of AmericaMost Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure. In-deed, this nation's best-loved author was every bit as ad-venturous, patriotic, romantic, and humorous as anyone has ever imagined. I found another Twain as well –one who grew cynical, bitter, saddened by the profound personal tragedies life dealt him, a man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race, who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night.在大多数美国人的心目中,马克?吐温是位伟大作家,他描写了哈克?费恩永恒的童年时代中充满诗情画意的旅程和汤姆?索亚在漫长的夏日里自由自在历险探奇的故事。
的确,这位美国最受人喜爱的作家的探索精神、爱国热情、浪漫气质及幽默笔调都达到了登峰造极的程度。
但我发现还有另一个不同的马克?吐温——一个由于深受人生悲剧的打击而变得愤世嫉俗、尖酸刻薄的马克?吐温,一个为人类品质上的弱点而忧心忡忡、明显地看到前途是一片黑暗的人。
Tramp printer, river pilot , Confederate guerrilla, prospector, starry-eyed optimist, acid-tongued cynic: The man who became Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens and he ranged across the nation for more than a third of his life, digesting the new American experience before sharing it with the world as writer and lecturer. He adopted his pen name from the cry heard in his steamboat days, signaling two fathoms (12 feet) of water -- a navigable depth. His popularity is attested by the fact that more than a score of his books remain in print, and translations are still read around the world.印刷工、领航员、邦联游击队员、淘金者、耽于幻想的乐天派、语言尖刻的讽刺家:马克?吐温原名塞缪尔?朗赫恩?克莱门斯,他一生之中有超过三分之一的时间浪迹美国各地,体验着美国的新生活,尔后便以作家和演说家的身分将他所感受到的这一切介绍给全世界。
马克吐温名言中英对照(3篇)1、 Collage is a place where professor s notes go straight to students notebooks, without passing through the brains of either. Mark Twain 《Mark Tain》2、 Don t part with your illusions. When they are gone you maystill exist, but you have ceased to live. Mark Twain3、 Time went on and winter came. 时间流逝,冬天来到了。
Mark Twain 《哈克贝利费恩历险记》马克吐温名言中英对照4、 Prophesying was the only human art that couldn t be improved by practice. 预言是人类唯一一项无法经由练习而改善的技术。
马克吐温5、 Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. 读养生保健的书可得加小心,没准儿一个印刷上的错误就会要了你的命。
马克吐温6、 Classic A book which people praise and don t read. -Mark Twain 经典之作是人人皆称赞却不愿去读的书。
- 马克吐温7、 When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it s a sure sign you re getting old. 如果你的朋友们开始夸你看上去多么年轻,那就是你正在变老的确据。
马克吐温8、 Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. 在所有的动物中,只有人类是残忍的。
I was at a dinner in London give n in honor of one of the most celebratedl En glish military men of his time. I do not want to tell you his real name and titles. I will just call him Lieutenant2 General Lord Arthur Scoresby.我出席了一次在伦敦举行的为当时最著名的英国军人举行的宴会。
我不想告诉你他真实的名字和头衔,我只想叫他阿瑟•斯考兹比爵士。
I cannot describe my exciteme nt whe n I saw this great and famous man. There he sat, the man himself, in person, all covered with medals. I could not take my eyes off him. He seemed to show the true mark of great ness. His fame had no effect on him. The hun dreds of eyes watchi ng him, the worship of so many people, did not seem to make any difference to him.当我见到这位伟大而著名的人物的时候,兴奋之情无以言表。
他独自一人坐在那里,浑身戴满了勋章。
我的注意力无法从他身上挪开,他好象就是真正伟大的标志。
他的名望对他根本没什么影响,成百上千双敬佩的眼睛,那么多人的崇敬似乎对他没有一丝影响。
Next to me sat a clergyma n, who was an old friend of mine. He was not always a clergyma n. During the first half of his life he was a teacher in the military school at Woolwich. There was a strange look in his eye as he leaned toward me and whispered - “ Pviately -he is a complete fool. ” He meant, of course, the hero of our dinner.坐在我旁边的是一位牧师,我的一位老朋友。
他并不是一直是个牧师,他的前半生在吾尔维希的军校当一名老师。
当他向我斜着身子轻声说话的时候,眼睛里有一种奇怪的表情:别跟别人说,他是个十足的傻子。
”他,当然指的是宴会上的那位英雄。
This came as a shock to me. I looked hard at my frien d. I could not have bee n more surprised if he had said the same thing about Napole on, or Socrates, or Solomon.他的话使我感到很震惊。
这比他说拿破伦或者苏格拉底或者所罗门王是傻子更令我吃惊。
But I was sure of two things about the clergyman. He always spoke3 the truth. And, his judgme nt4 of men was good. Therefore, I wan ted to find out more about our hero as soon as I days later I got a cha nce to talk with the clergyma n, and he told me more. These are his exact words: 但是,对于这位牧师,我有两点可以确信:他总是说实话和他对人的判断总是对的。
因此,我想尽快找出我们那位大英雄的更多的秘密。
几天以后,我找到了一个和这位牧师谈话的机会。
下面就是他跟我说的,原文是:About forty years ago, I was an instructor5 in the military academy at Woolwich, when young Scoresby was give n his first exam in ati on. I felt extremely sorry for him. Everybody answered the questions well, intelligently, while he -why, dear me -he did not know anything, so to speak. He was a nice, pleasa nt young man .It was painful to see him sta nd there and give an swers that were miracles of stupidity.大约四十年前,我在吾尔维希军事学院任教的时候,年轻的斯考兹比参加了他的第一次考试。
我感到他那么可怜,每个人都出色机智地回答了问题,而他----我的天,不知道为什么----也就是说,他什么也不知道。
他是个友善的、举止文雅的年轻人。
看着他象块木头一样站在那儿,净给出一些愚蠢的回答,真是一件痛苦的事。
I knew of course that whe n exam ined aga in he would fail and be throw n out. So, I said to myself, it would be a simple, harmless act to help him as much as I could.我当然知道,如果再考一次他还失败的话,他将会被开除了。
于是,我对自己说,我尽自己最大所能去帮助他,将是一件简单而无恶意的善事。
I took him aside and found he knew a little about Julius Caesar' Isistory. But, he did not know anything else. So, I went to work and tested him and worked him like a slave. I made him work, over and over again, on a few questions about Caesar, which I knew he would be asked.我把他带到一边,发现他知道有关凯撒的一点历史。
由于其它的东西他都不知道,我就开始逼着他象做苦工一样学习和检测。
我反复地让他学习一些我知道会用上的关于凯撒的问题。
If you will believe me, he came through very well on the day of the exam in ati on. He got high praise too, while others who knew a thousand times more than he were sharply criticized. By some stra nge, lucky accide nt, he was asked no questio ns but those I made him study. Such an accide nt does not happe n more tha n once in a hun dred years.请相信我,考试那天他出色地通过了,也得到了很高的赞赏。
那些知道的比他多一千倍的人也通过了考试。
出于奇妙而幸运的巧合,除了我教他的那些问题以外,别的什么都没有问道。
象这样的巧合,一百年也不会发生一次。
Well, all through his studies, I stood by him, with the feeling a mother has for a disabledI thought that what i n the end would destroy him would be the mathematics exam in ati on. I decided6 to make his end as painl ess as possible. So, I pushed facts into his stupid head for hours. Fin ally, I let him go to the exam in ati on to experie nce what I was sure would be his dismissal from school. Well, sir, try to imagine the result. I was shocked out of my mind. He took first prize! And he got the highest praise.我想最终会毁掉他的可能是数学。
我决定尽可能使他的结局没有痛苦。
我长时间地训练他,把知识硬塞进他那迟钝的脑壳。
我只在那些考官们最有可能提出的问题上训练和灌输他。
最后,我又让他吃了一些补脑药。
呵。
先生,你就尽力想象一下吧,我都被自己的智慧给震惊了,他得了一等奖!并且得到了最高奖励。
I felt guilty day and ni ght -what I was doing was not right. But I only wan ted to make his dismissal a little less painful for him. I n ever dreamed it would lead to such stra nge, laughable thought that sooner or later one thing was sure to happen: The first real test once he was through school would ruin him.我日夜承受着良心的谴责----我所做的一切都是错误的,但是起初我只是想使他被开除的时候没那么痛苦。