美國語文第六冊 第268期:英國人的性格(5)
對他而言，世界就是這個樣子。確實，他旅行時，射殺霍屯督人中間的獅子，
chases the grizzly bear over the Rocky Mountains, kills elephants in India and salmon on the coast of Labrador,
跨越落基山脈追逐北美洲灰熊，在印度獵殺大象，在拉布拉多沿岸捕殺鮭魚，
comes home, and very likely makes a book. But the scope of his ideas does not seem to be enlarged by all this.
然后回家，非?？赡軐⑦@些經(jīng)歷寫進一本書里。但是，他思想的疆界似乎不會因為這些而有所拓展。
The body travels, not the mind. And, however he may abuse his own land, he returns home as hearty a John Bull,
行走的是他的身體，而不是心靈。然而他也許會傷害自己的國家，他像一個典型的英國人那樣精神飽滿地回到家里，
with all his prejudices and national tastes as rooted, as before.
還像以前一樣帶著根深蒂固的偏見，自己的情趣一點也沒有變。
The English—the men of fortune all travel. Yet how little sympathy they show for other people or institutions, and how slight is the interest they take in them!
英國人——幸運的人——走遍了世界?？墒牵麄儗ζ渌褡宓娜嘶蛘w多么冷漠，他對他們給予的興趣又何其微不足道啊!
They are islanders, cut off from the great world. But their island is, indeed, a world of its own.
他們是島民，與這個巨大的世界相隔絕。實際上，他們居住的島嶼就是屬于他們的世界。
With all their faults, never has the sun shone if one may use the expression in reference to England all a more noble race,
他們所有的錯誤從不會暴露在陽光之下——如果有什么詞可以形容英格蘭的話，當然會說那是一個更高貴的民族，
or one that has done more for the great interests of humanity.
或者一個對人類的重大利益做出更多貢獻的民族。
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