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And if you have people in the ordinary way, the others think you're wicked and anti-social.
你要是按照常現(xiàn)接受男人，人家就說你壞，反社會。
They hate and despise you.
就會仇恨你，瞧不起你。
Once a lot of women came and made a scene because their men came to see me.
有一回一大批女人來找我大鬧了一場，因為她們的男人來看我。
Well, why not? And then they rushed at me … No, it was too awful.
哼，為什么不能來看我？然后，她們向我沖了過來……不，太可怕了！
I can't tell you about it." Linda covered her face with her hands and shuddered.
我沒法告訴你。”琳妲用手遮住臉，嚇壞了。
"They're so hateful, the women here. Mad, mad and cruel.
“這兒的女人非常可恨；她們瘋狂，瘋狂而且殘忍。
And of course they don't know anything about Malthusian Drill, or bottles, or decanting, or anything of that sort.
她們當然不懂得馬爾薩斯操、培養(yǎng)瓶、換瓶和諸如此類的東西。
So they're having children all the time–like dogs. It's too revolting.
太叫人受不了了。
And to think that I … Oh, Ford, Ford, Ford! And yet John was a great comfort to me.
想想看，我居然……啊，福帝，福帝，福帝！可是約翰對我倒的確是個很大的安慰。
I don't know what I should have done without him. Even though he did get so upset whenever a man …
要是沒有他我真不知道會干出什么事來。即使他常常因為有男人……
Quite as a tiny boy, even.
而很傷心，就連還是個娃娃的時候他也……
Once (but that was when he was bigger) he tried to kill poor Waihusiwa—or was it Popé?–just because I used to have them sometimes.
有一回，他甚至因為我常跟可憐的朗西瓦——也許是波培？——睡覺，就想殺死他（不過，那時約翰已經(jīng)大了一些）。
Because I never could make him understand that that was what civilized people ought to do.
因為我從來無法讓他懂得那是文明人應(yīng)當做的事。
Being mad's infectious I believe. Anyhow, John seems to have caught it from the Indians. Because, of course, he was with them a lot. Even though they always were so beastly to him and wouldn't let him do all the things the other boys did.
我覺得瘋狂是會傳染的。總之，約翰似乎從印第安人那兒傳染了瘋病，當然，因為他跟他們一起的時候很多，盡管他們對他很惡劣，也不讓他做別的小伙子可以做的事。
Which was a good thing in a way, because it made it easier for me to condition him a little.
這在一定的意義上倒是好事。因為那可以讓我更容易為他設(shè)置條件。
Though you've no idea how difficult that is.
雖然你就不知道那有多么困難。
There's so much one doesn't know; it wasn't my business to know.
我不知道的東西太多了。我本來是沒有義務(wù)去知道那些事的。
I mean, when a child asks you how a helicopter works or who made the world—well, what are you to answer if you're a Beta and have always worked in the Fertilizing Room?
我是說，孩子問你，直升飛機是怎么飛的，世界是什么東西造的——你看，你如果是個一直就在授精室工作的比塔，你怎么回答？
What are you to answer?"
你能夠拿什么話回答？”
