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英語名篇誦讀菁華 1-16 The English Humour 英國人的幽默

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Fun seems to be the possession of the English race.Fun is JohnBulll's idea of humour,and there is no intellectualjudgment in fun.Everybody understands it be-cause it is practical.More than that,it unites allclasses and sweetens even political life.To studythe elemental form of English humour,you must look to the school-boy.It begins with the practical joke,and unless there is something of his natureabout it,it is never humour to an Englishman.Inan English household,fun is going all the time.The entire house resounds witn it.The father comes home and the whole family contribute to theamusement;puns,humorous uses of words,little things that are meaningless nonsense,if you like,fly round,and every one enjoys them thoroughly for just what they are.The Scotch are devoid ofthis trait,and the Americans seem to be,too.

  If I had the power to give humour to the na-tions I would not give them drollery,for that isimpractical;I would not give them wit,for that isaristocratic,and many minds cannot grasp it;but Iwould be contented to deal out fun,which has nointellectual element,no subtlety,belongs to oldand young,educated and uneducated alike,and isthe natural form of the humour of the Englishman.

  Let me tell you why the Englishman speaksonly one language.He believes with the strongest conviction that his own tongue is the one that allpeople ought to speak and will come in time tospeak,so what is the use of learning any other?Hebelieves,too,that he is appointed by Providenceto be a governor of all the rest of the human race.From our Scottish standpoint we can never see anEnglishman without thinking that there is oozing from every pore of his body the conviction that he belongs to a governing race.It has not been his de-sire that large portions of the world should be un-der his care,but as they have been thrust uponhim in the proceedings of a wise Providence,hemust discharge his duty.This theory hasn't en-deared him to others of his kind,but that isn't amatter that concerns him.He doesn't learn anyother language because he knows that he couldspeak it only so imperfectly that other people would laugh at him,and it would never do that aperson of his importance in the scheme of the uni-verse should be made the object of ridicule.

逗樂兒似乎是英國人的秉性,是典型的英國人所說的幽默,不需要區(qū)分智力高下。它切合實際,人人都懂。不僅如此,它把各階層人士聯(lián)系在一起,甚至還使政治生活變得盎然有趣。要研究英國幽默的基礎(chǔ)形式,你必須觀察其教科書。教科書都是以切合實際的玩笑開頭,如果這個玩笑無關(guān)于英國人本性,在英國人看來,就無幽默可言。在一個英國家庭里,逗樂兒無時不在進行,整幢屋子其樂融融。父親回家了,全家人各顯其能,津津樂道;雙關(guān)語、俏皮話、大實話、空話廢話滿天飛,人人盡情享受。蘇格蘭人沒有這種性格,美國人恐怕也沒有。

如果我有權(quán)給予此民族幽默的特質(zhì),那么我就不給予他們詼諧的本領(lǐng),因為那不切實際;我也不給予他們風(fēng)趣的風(fēng)格,因為那過于貴族派頭,以致多數(shù)人無法理解;我要心滿意足地給予他們逗樂兒的本事,即不分智力高下,沒有隱晦曲折,無論老少或受教育與否都能享受的英國式的自然幽默。

讓我告訴諸位為什么英國人只講一種語言。因為英國人堅信,英語是各國人民都應(yīng)該講、而且遲早都會講的語言,因此,學(xué)其他語言有什么用?他還認為,上帝已委派他成為全人類的主宰。從蘇格蘭人的立場來看,英國人每一個毛孔都散發(fā)著他是屬于統(tǒng)治民族的信念。他雖然不想把各國人民置于自己的監(jiān)護之下,但是,既然賢明的上帝讓他這樣做,他就必須盡到責(zé)任。這種理論沒有使他對其他人、包括對和他一樣的人變得親切可愛,但那不關(guān)他的事。他之所以不學(xué)其他語言,因為他知道自己說得很糟,唯恐別人恥笑,而像他那樣重要的人是萬萬不能成為別人的笑柄的。

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