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ignoble adj.1.卑鄙的;可恥的,不體面的。2.卑賤的,出身微...

He had entitled the story “ adventure , “ and it was the apotheosis of adventure - not of the adventure of the storybooks , but of real adventure , the savage taskmaster , awful of punishment and awful of reward , faithless and whimsical , demanding terrible patience and heartbreaking days and nights of toil , offering the blazing sunlight glory or dark death at the end of thirst and famine or of the long drag and monstrous delirium of rotting fever , through blood and sweat and stinging insects leading up by long chains of petty and ignoble contacts to royal culminations and lordly achievements 信心不足,多次反復要求著可怕的耐性和在辛酸的日夜里的勤勞苦作。面前或是耀眼的燦爛陽光,或是忍饑受渴之后的漆黑的死亡,或是長期高燒,形銷骨立,精神嚴重錯亂而死。通過血與汗,蚊叮蟲咬,通過一串又一串瑣碎平凡的交鋒,終于到達了輝煌的結局,取得了壯麗的成就。

“ ah , “ said the count , in a somewhat forced tone , “ that may be easily explained ; the comtesse de morcerf , who is aristocracy and refinement itself , does not relish the idea of being allied by your marriage with one of ignoble birth ; that is natural enough . “哦! ”伯爵用一種稍顯勉強的口氣說道, “這大概很容易解釋,馬爾塞夫伯爵夫人是身價最高的貴族,所以不愿意您跟一個出身微賤的家庭聯姻那倒是很自然的。 ”

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And so , as we have said , the iron gate leading into the kitchen - garden had been closed up and left to the rust , which bade fair before long to eat off its hinges , while to prevent the ignoble glances of the diggers and delvers of the ground from presuming to sully the aristocratic enclosure belonging to the mansion , the gate had been boarded up to a height of six feet 因此,正如剛才已經說過的,這扇通果園的鐵門已封閉了起來,任其生銹腐蝕,而的確要不了多久鐵銹就會把門的鉸鏈爛斷,同時,為了防止果園里的掘土工人擅自窺視燈廈,玷污貴族的庭園,鐵門上又釘了六尺高的木板。

But suppose one pass , as is permissible in philology , from the word itself to its softened synonym , then , instead of committing an ignoble assassination you make an elimination ; you merely and simply remove from your path the individual who is in your way , and that without shock or violence , without the display of the sufferings which , in the case of becoming a punishment , make a martyr of the victim , and a butcher , in every sense of the word , of him who inflicts them . then there will be no blood , no groans , no convulsions , and above all , no consciousness of that horrid and compromising moment of accomplishing the act , - then one escapes the clutch of the human law , which says , do not disturb society 但假如,象我們在語言學上所下的功夫因此那樣,把那兩個字換成字面比較溫和的同義詞,你只是除掉了一個人,假如你不是犯卑鄙的暗殺罪而只是除掉一個擋在你前進的路上的人,不必用暴力,不必心驚肉跳,不會產生痛苦,使犧牲者大受折磨,假如不發生流血,沒有呻吟,沒有痙攣般的掙扎,總之,沒有那種立刻發生的可怕的情形,那么,你就可以逃脫人類的法律的制裁,因為法律只對你說:不要擾亂社會!

Here were not , as in other tombs , ignoble drawers , one above another , where thrift bestows its dead and labels them like specimens in a museum ; all that was visible within the bronze gates was a gloomy - looking room , separated by a wall from the vault itself . the two doors before mentioned were in the middle of this wall , and enclosed the villefort and saint - m 但維爾福的家墓卻不然,從那青銅的墓門里望進去,先看見一間肅穆的前廳,墓室和前庭之間還隔了一堵墻,一扇門通入維爾福家的墓穴,一扇門通圣梅朗家的墓穴。

If we stand idly by , if we seek merely swollen , slothful ease , and ignoble peace , if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear , then the bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by and will win for themselves the domination of the world 如果我們袖手旁觀,如果我們僅僅追求昏庸懶散的悠閑生活和安逸,如果我們不參與這種必須以生命和珍愛的一切去獲取勝利的激烈競爭,那么比我們野蠻強大的民族將甩開我們,控制整個世界。

At the end mr brown touches on the topic of ignoble valour but he makes no judgment on it beyond saying , “ in our discourse on courage , we continually seek to draw distinction between acts of courage and acts of fanaticism , mindless recklessness , fury - driven malevolence and other extreme behaviour that may masquerade as courage 布朗在書的最后提到了匹夫之勇,但也止于一句話:談到勇氣,我們一直竭力在真正的勇敢與盲目、魯莽、惡意報復及其它被誤認為勇敢的極端行為之間劃清界線。

In truth it was humble - but then it was sheltered , and i wanted a safe asylum : it was plodding - but then , compared with that of a governess in a rich house , it was independent ; and the fear of servitude with strangers entered my soul like iron : it was not ignoble - not unworthy - not mentally degrading 說實在,這工作很低下但提供了住所,而我需要一個安全的避難所。這工作沉悶乏味一但比之富人家庭的女教師,它卻是無拘無束的。而替陌生人操勞的恐懼象鐵鉗一樣夾住了我的心。

He had entitled the story “ adventure , “ and it was the apotheosis of adventure - not of the adventure of the storybooks , but of real adventure , the savage taskmaster , awful of punishment and awful of reward , faithless and whimsical , demanding terrible patience and heartbreaking days and nights of toil , offering the blazing sunlight glory or dark death at the end of thirst and famine or of the long drag and monstrous delirium of rotting fever , through blood and sweat and stinging insects leading up by long chains of petty and ignoble contacts to royal culminations and lordly achievements 信心不足,多次反復要求著可怕的耐性和在辛酸的日夜里的勤勞苦作。面前或是耀眼的燦爛陽光,或是忍饑受渴之后的漆黑的死亡,或是長期高燒,形銷骨立,精神嚴重錯亂而死。通過血與汗,蚊叮蟲咬,通過一串又一串瑣碎平凡的交鋒,終于到達了輝煌的結局,取得了壯麗的成就。

What is the use of us in having magical and psychic power so we can change a sick person into a healthy one , an ugly person into a beautiful one , but inside him still rotten , inside him still sick , inside him still ugly - plagued with all kinds of negative thinking , of ignoble ideals of the harmful kind of wishes unto other people and himself 果我們有神通或靈力可使病人成為健康的人變難看的人成為漂亮的人,對我們有什么用?因為他里面仍然是爛的是病的是丑的,仍為負面的思想不高雅的理念,以及害己害人的意念所苦惱。

As she flashes back to her sorrowful past , kinoshita uses a simple yet effective device silence to convey the stark sentiments of her recollection . despite her ignoble history , in which desperations required her to sacrifice her own virtues , she remains steadfast to her ungrateful children until the harrowing end 木下寫了兩代人的不同人生觀:母親為讓子女過好日子,去賣黑市米,甚至以色相賺錢子女在勢利環境下成長,學曉了利用別人來成全自己。

“ ah , “ said the count , in a somewhat forced tone , “ that may be easily explained ; the comtesse de morcerf , who is aristocracy and refinement itself , does not relish the idea of being allied by your marriage with one of ignoble birth ; that is natural enough . “哦! ”伯爵用一種稍顯勉強的口氣說道, “這大概很容易解釋,馬爾塞夫伯爵夫人是身價最高的貴族,所以不愿意您跟一個出身微賤的家庭聯姻那倒是很自然的。 ”

The cruelty of murdering his prisoners is not remembered against him . his childishly imprudent , groundless , and ignoble departure from africa , abandoning his comrades in misfortune , does him good service ; and again the enemys fleet lets him twice slip through their hands 他像孩子般地毫無道理地也不光彩地撒下患難中的伙伴,若無其事地又從非洲溜走,并且連這種舉動也算成他的功績,而敵人的海軍又兩次放他通行。

Strict and monotonous as they might seem , these laws repeatedly remind us of the ephemerality of this world by means of birth , aging , illness and death ; they make us aware that we have often violated the rules with many of our ignoble thoughts and actions 宇宙法律執行起來有時也顯得很刻板蠻無聊,不過它會不厭其煩地用生老病死來提醒我們世界無常,讓我們知道仍有許多行為和觀念不甚高雅常常犯規。

In his case , i was gratified ; and , ignoble as it seems to insult a fallen enemy , i couldn t miss this chance of sticking in a dart : his weakness was the only time when i could taste the delight of paying wrong for wrong 現在是他,我就很滿足侮辱一個倒下的敵人固然看來有點卑鄙,可我不能失去這個猛刺一下的機會他軟弱的時候正是我能嘗到冤冤相報的愉快滋味的唯一時機。 ”

Genetically , we are very similar , and when it comes to high levels of aggression between members of two different groups , as i noted in last month ' s column on “ the ignoble savage , ” we also resemble chimpanzees 在遺傳學上,兩者非常像,而且人類不同群體之間的高度敵對,也與黑猩猩差不了多遠;我在上一期的不高貴的野蠻人一文已談過。

Down below where he lived was the ignoble , and he wanted to purge himself of the ignoble that had soiled all his days , and to rise to that sublimated realm where dwelt the upper classes 而在下面,在他自己的生活圈子里,人們卻卑賤穢污。他要洗凈那污染了他一輩子的穢物,躋身于上層階級所生活的高貴世界里。

But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows , and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do , the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble 至少對于我來說,最好的戰勝困難的辦法就是,把自己的眼界打開,對更多的東西感興趣(也就是要博愛) ,隨著時光一點一滴地流走,你的生命將得到升華。

Strong and ready hands turned him about and conveyed him in silence and haste to the sidewalk and averted the ignoble fate of the menaced mallard 結實有力、早有準備的雙手拽著他轉了個大彎,他沉默地、匆忙地被扭送到了人行道,從而改變了那只野鴨遭到威脅的可恥命運。