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Dudley Field Malone called my conviction a "victorious defeat." A few southern papers, loyal to their faded champion, hailed it as a victory for Bryan.
達德雷費爾德馬隆稱這次庭審結(jié)果對我來說是一次"勝利的敗仗"。有幾家南方報紙，出于對他們那位已失去昔日光彩的英雄的忠誠，稱這次審判結(jié)果為布萊恩的勝利，并為之歡呼。
But Bryan, sad and exhausted, died in Dayton two days after the trial.
可布萊恩本人卻因傷心勞神過度，審判結(jié)束后才過了兩天便在戴頓去世。
I was offered my teaching job back but I declined.
學(xué)校要請我回去繼續(xù)擔(dān)任原先的教學(xué)職務(wù)，但我謝絕了。
Some of the professors who had come to testify on my be-half arranged a scholarship for me at the University of Chicago so that I could pursue the study of science.
有幾位前來為我作證的教授已為我爭取到了一份芝加哥大學(xué)的獎學(xué)金，因而我得以繼續(xù)進修自然科學(xué)。
Later I became a geologist for an oil company.
后來，我成為一家石油公司的地質(zhì)學(xué)專家。
Not long ago I went back to Dayton for the first time since my trial 37 years ago.
前不久，我在那次審判三十七年之后第一次重返戴頓。
The little town looked much the same to me. But now there is a William Jennings Bryan University on a hill-top over looking the valley.
在我眼中，小鎮(zhèn)景物依舊，只是多了一所威廉詹寧斯布萊恩大學(xué)，它坐落在一個小山坡上，俯視著下面的山谷。
There were other changes, too. Evolution is taught in Tennessee, though the law under which I was convicted is still on the books.
還有一些其他方面的變化。進化論已經(jīng)可以在田納西州公開講授了，盡管那條曾判我有罪的法令仍未廢除。
The oratorial storm that Clarence Darrow and Dudley Field Malone blew up in the little court in Dayton swept like a fresh wind through the schools and legislative offices of the United States, bringing in its wake a new climate of intellectual and academic freedom that has grown with the passing years.
由克拉倫斯達羅和達德雷費爾德馬隆在戴頓鎮(zhèn)的小小法庭上掀起的那些辯論風(fēng)暴猶如一股清風(fēng)吹遍了美國的學(xué)校和立法機關(guān)，隨之而來的是日漸增長的思想自由和學(xué)術(shù)自由的新氣象。
(from Reader's Digest, July, 1962)
(摘自《讀者文摘》1962年7月)
