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But there was no king. They did not use swords, or keep slaves. They were not barbarians.
然而，奧米勒斯城并沒有國王。奧米勒斯人不用劍，也不養奴隸。他們并不是化外的野蠻人。
I do not know the rules and laws of their society, but I suspect that they were singularly few.
我不知道他們的社會有些什么條令和法規，但我猜想他們的條規一定很少。
As they did without monarchy and slavery, so they also got on without the stock exohan6e, the advertisement, the secret police, and the bomb.
他們的社會既不存在君主制和奴隸制，同樣也沒有股票交易，沒有商業廣告，沒有秘密警察，沒有原子彈。
Yet I repeat that these were not simple folk, not dulcet shepherds, noble savages, bland utopians.
不過，我再次說明，這些人并不是頭腦簡單的原始人，不是溫厚善良的牧羊人，不是出身高貴的野蠻人，也不是溫文有禮的烏托邦主義者。
They were not less complex than us.
他們的頭腦并不比我們的簡單。
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid.
我們的社會的弊病在于，由于一些賣弄學問的人和深諳世故的人的推波助瀾，我們養成了一種惡習，認為歡樂是一種無聊乏味的東西，
Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.
只有痛苦才能啟迪人的智慧，
This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
只有邪惡才能激發人的興趣。拒絕承認邪惡的平淡無奇和痛苦的枯燥無味性是藝術家的負義失職。
If you can't lick 'em, join 'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn you about the people of Omelas?
倘若你無法戰勝這些，不如干脆與之同流合污;倘若你受到打擊覺得痛苦，不如重施一次打擊，以減輕痛苦。
They were not naive and happy children-though their children were, in fact, happy.
他們是成熟的、智慧的、充滿激情的成年人，而且過著不錯的生活。啊，真是奇跡!
They were mature, intelligent, passionate adults whose delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else.
我們已幾乎失去一切，再也不知如何去描述一個快樂的人了，也無法舉行什么快樂的活動。
We have almost lost hold, we can no longer describe a happy man, nor make any celebration of joy. How can I tell lives were not wretched?miracle! but I wish I could describe it better. I wish I could convince you.
不過，我真希望把這一切描寫得更好!我怎樣才能對你們講清奧米勒斯人的快樂情形呢?我真希望你們人人都能信服。
