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And America, to its credit, can also show us a lot of sensible men and women who have denounced all this and have walked out of it.
足以令美國自豪的是，我們發現美國也有一些對這一切進行抨擊并從中擺脫出來的有識之士。
But this book is about the English, not the Americans. Now 'Englishness', with its relation to the unconscious, its dependence upon instinct and intuition, cannot break its links with the past: it has deep long roots.
不過，本書所要描寫的是英國人，不是美國人。再說英國人特性，因與潛意識相關聯，又依賴于本能和直覺而存在，故不能割斷與過去的聯系：它根深蒂固。源遠流長。
Being itself a state of mind, it cannot ignore other states of mind and cannot help feeling that Admass, with its ruthless competitiveness, its idea of man simply as a producer and consumer, its dependence upon dissatisfaction, greed and envy, must be responsible for bad and not good states of mind. Furthermore, while Englishness is not hostile to change, it is deeply suspicious of change for change’s sake, rejecting the idea that we are now committed to some inevitable mechanical progress.
英國人特性本身是一種精神境界，因而它不能不注意其他的精神境界。也就不能不覺得商業廣告推銷，由于其殘酷的競爭性，其將人僅僅看作生產者和消費者的思想觀念，其對不知足心理、貪婪和妒忌心理的依存性而必然會導致壞的而不是好的精神境界。而且，盡管英國人并不反對變革，但對于為變革而變革的做法卻深懷疑慮，對那種認為我們現在必須無條件地歡迎機械化的進步的觀點也拒不接受。
Here we might take a concrete example.
在此我們可以舉一個具體的例子。
Englishness' would support an immediate demand, at the expense of many other things, for more and better housing.
英國人會不惜一切代價來支持人們對于更多更好的住房的刻不容緩的需求。
Without adequate shelter and a decent place to call their own, people feel wretched.
如果沒有足夠的安身之處，沒有一個屬于自己的像樣的房子，人們會感到凄慘。
But people in England, not a big country, do not have to have more and more and larger and larger cars, with longer and wider motorways, wrecking the countryside, to take the cars.
但在英國這樣一個不太大的國家里，人們并不一定需要擁有越來越多、越來越大的轎車以及供這些轎車使用的越來越長、越來越寬的高速公路，因為這樣會破壞鄉村自然景色。
If they think they do, this is 'Admass' at work. People have wanted houses for centuries, and cars of their own only for a very short time.
假如他們認為需要這些，那便是商業廣告推銷在作祟。人們渴望擁有自己的房屋已經有千百年的歷史了。而渴望擁有自己的汽車才只是很短時期的事。
To put cars and motorways before houses seems to 'Englishness' a communal imbecility.
就英國人特性而言，把汽車和公路擺到住房之上的做法似乎是一種社會性的愚蠢之舉。
