高级英语1 Unit5Conservatives and Liberals翻译

The two parties which pide the state, the party of Conservative and that of innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made. This quarrel is the subject of civil history. The conservative party established the reverend hierarchies and monarchies of the most ancient world. The battle of patrician and plebian, of parent state and colony, of old usage and accommodation to new facts, of the rich and, of the poor, reappears in all countries and times. The war rages not only in battlefields, in national councils, and ecclesiastical synods, but agitates every man’s bosom with opposing advantages every hour. On rolls the old world meantime, and now one, now the other gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities.

这个国家存在着两个政党,保守党和革新党。这两个政党长期存在,并且,自从这个世界存在财产后,两个政党就有了争端。这种争端是人民历史发展的主题。保守党建立了这个世界最古老的值得尊敬的等级制度和君主制。两党之间的战争包括贵族和平民, 宗主国和殖民地,旧秩序和新秩序,穷人和富人。这些争端存在于所有国家的每个时刻。战争的范围不仅是在战场,在国家议会和基督教议会,而且每时每刻都以反对性质的优势牵动着每个人的内心。旧世界被推翻的同时建立起新世界。今天新世界发展得很好, 但是他仍然要不断的以新的的名字和时代性个性更新自我。

2. Such an irreconcilable antagonism, of course, must have a correspondent depth of seat in the human constitution. It is the opposition of Past and Future, of Memory and Hope, of the Understanding and Reason. It is the primal antagonism, the appearance in trifles of the two poles of nature.

当然,如此势不两立的敌对势力必须对人类的体制有相似深度的理解。这就是过去和将来,记忆和希望,理解和原因的对立。最基本的敌对势力存在于自然两级中的琐事中。

3. There is a fragment of old fable which seems somehow to have been dropped from the current mythologies, which may deserve attention, as it appears to relate to this subject. 有一个古老预言的片段似乎一定程度上能用来解释现今的神话, 它很值得关注,因为它与这个主题相关。

4. Saturn grew weary of sitting alone, or with none but the great Uranus or Heaven beholding him, and he created an oyster. Then he would act again, but he made nothing more, but went on creating the race of oysters. Then Uranus cried, “a new work, O Saturn! The old is not good again.”

5. Saturn replied, “I fear. There is no t only the alternative of making and not making, but also of unmaking. Seest thou the great sea, how it ebbs and flows? So is it with me; my power ebbs; and if I put forth my hands, I shall not do, but undo. Therefore I do what I have done; I hold what I

h ave got; and so I resist Night and Chaos.”

6. “O Saturn,” replied Uranus. “Thou canst not hold thine own, but by making more. Thy oysters are barnacles and cockles, and with the next flowing of the tide, they will be pebble and sea foam.”

7. “I see,” rejoins Saturn, “thou art in league with Night, thou art become an evil eye: thou spakest from love; now thy words smite me with hatred. I appeal to Fate, must there not be rest?” ---“I appeal to Fate also,” said Uranus, “must there not be motion?” --- But Saturn was silent and went on making oysters for a thousand years.

8. After that the word of Uranus came into his mind like a ray of the sun, and he made Jupiter; and then he feared again; and nature froze, the things that were made went backward, and to save the world, Jupiter slew his father Saturn.

9. This may stand for the earliest account of a conversation on politics between a Conservative

and a Radical, which has come down to us. It is ever thus. It is the counteraction of the centripetal and the centrifugal forces. Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement. “That which is was made by God,” saith Conservatism. “He is leaving that, he is entering this other,” rejoins Innovation.

这个也许是保守党和激进党政见最早描述的代表,它传承下来给我们。他曾经是那样。它是离心力和向心力的对抗。革新党是突起的力量,保守党是最后发展的停滞。保守党坚持那是上帝创造的东西。革新党增加到上帝留下了一些东西,他也将加入其他的东西。

10. There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with certain superiority in its fact. It affirms because it holds. Its fingers clutch the fact, and it will not open its eyes to see a better fact. The castle, which conservatism set to defend, is the actual state of things. Of course, conservatism always has the worst of the argument, is always apologizing, pleading a necessity, pleading that to change would be to deteriorate; it must saddle itself with the mountainous load of all the violence and vice of society, must deny the possibility of good, deny ideas, and suspect and stone the prophet; whilst innovation is always in the right, triumphant, attacking, and sure of final success. Conservatism stands on man’s incontestable limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself; conservatism is debonair and social; reform is inpidual and imperious.

保守党总是有一些无意义的争论, 同时也存在一些优点。因为坚持所以确定,她的手指紧握事实,它永不会睁开双眼看更好的事态,保守党保卫他建立的代表现今事态的城堡,无论好坏。当然,保守党总是保有最坏的争议,他总是道歉,恳请必需品,恳请这个世界做恶化的改变; 她用庞大的所有暴力和社会罪恶来武装自己, 否定好的可能性, 否定观点,否定和怀疑先知,与此同时,革新党总是对的,成功的, 进攻性的并确定最终的成功。保守党坚持人类无可否认的极限, 保守党拥有环境,革新党拥有权利。一个要建立社会结构中的灵活成员, 另一个要延迟事物的发展。保守主义是温文尔雅的,交际的;革新主义是独立的专横的。

We are reformers in the spring and summer, in autumn and winter we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night. Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goe …… 此处隐藏：6328字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……