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I am keeping this on the male side, if only because a woman's problems are generally more personal, immediate, emotionally urgent, so that unless she is a hopeless case she has to face and deal with some of them.
我所說的這些都是指的男性，婦女的問題一般來說更帶個性，更直接，感情上更急切，所以，除非是一個不可救藥的典型，她一般都會去正視并解決自己所遇到的部分問題。
And this is the situation that many of the English, decent at heart, find themselves in today.
這就是許多內心純潔的英國人今天所處的狀況。
Bewildered, they grope and mess around because they have fallen between two stools, the old harsh discipline having vanished and the essential new self-discipline either not understood or thought to be out of reach.
他們感到困惑、彷徨，開始四處摸索，虛耗光陰，因為他們兩頭都落了空：舊有的苛刻束縛已不復存在，而新的必要的自我約束要么不被人理解，要么被看作是不可企及的。
Boredom is a menace, now and in the future.
煩悶情緒是一種威脅，現在和將來都是如此。
All heavily industrialized societies are in the boredom business.
所有高度工業化的社會都在制造煩悶情緒。
This is not simply because so much of the work they offer is boring.
這不僅僅是因為工業化社會所提供的工作大多讓人厭煩，
It is also because, after having shattered the slow rhythms, the traditional skills, the closely knit communities of rural societies, they crowd people together, excite them by large promises that cannot be kept, so drive them into boredom.
而且也是因為工業化社會打破了過去生活的慢節奏，消滅了各種傳統的勞動技藝，瓦解了農村社會嚴密的群體結構之后，又讓人們群集在一起，用一些言過其實而又根本無法兌現的承諾來誘惑他們，因而使得他們產生厭煩情緒。
Now the English-at least the contemporary English of my experience-can soon feel bored, which largely explains why they gamble and booze so much and enjoy any dramatic change in public life, any news that encourages excited talk: the urban English have always seemed to me a dramatic people.
現在的英國人--至少那些生活經歷與我相同的當代英國人-很容易感到厭煩，這在很大程度上有助于我們理解為什么他們那么喜歡酗酒賭博，愛看社會上的一切熱鬧場面，愛聽任何能激起熱烈議論的奇聞怪事。
When boredom can't be banished, there is always danger ahead. Teenagers,who have not been able to use up enough energy during the day (they should be worked harder), turn at night to idiot vandalism.
居住在都市中的英國人在我看來都是一些愛大驚小怪的人物。
Later, if boredom hardens into frustration, some of them, too many of them, take to crime, all kinds, from petty shop-lifting to ferocious robbery with violence.
只要厭煩情緒不消除，危險便始終存在于我們面前。青少年在白天沒能用完自己的精力(本應該讓他們多干點活兒)，到了晚上便就胡作非為，四處搗亂。
