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Life in fact was much rougher, harder, more superficially insecure, when I was young, but there seemed to be more honesty about, less constant cheating and pilfering and certainly far less vicious criminality.
在我年輕的時候，生活其實比現在艱難困苦得多，表面上的安全感也少得多，但人們似乎比現在的人誠實，爾虞我詐、鼠竊狗偷的現象很少見，嚴重犯罪的現象自然就更是少得多了。
Other elements apart from boredom of course have been at work here.
看來·除了厭煩情緒之外，還有一些其他因素在起作用。
There is Iago's Put money in thy purse; there is the false notion that the world owes you something while you owe it nothing;
其中包括伊阿古那句"把錢裝入你的腰包"的名言，以及那種認為社會有愧于你而你卻無愧于社會的錯誤觀念，
the other idea that so long as you are not found out, then all will be well-no final damnation threatening you any longer, and no understanding yet that there can be plenty of Hells on a do-it-yourself basis.
還有一種思想認為做壞事只要不被人發現便一切都好--再沒有什么最后的審判來威脅你，也不會有人理解我行我素者也有可能受到各種形式的懲罰。
Behind it all, whether people are sunk into almost mindless apathy or scream out of their frustration for violence, there is a feeling that everything is different now, that life has been found out to be without meaning, without purpose, equally negative for all mankind or for your own nation.
不管人們是陷入徹底的麻木狀態，還是由于苦悶而發出暴力的呼喊，這一切的背后都隱藏著這樣一種感覺，認為一切事物都已今非昔比了，生活被"發現"為毫無意義，毫無目的，對全人類或祖國都沒有什么積極作用。
Naturally I am not saying all the English are down on this level.
自然，我并不是說所有英國人都已墮落到這種地步。
We still have some Englishness'left, keeping our minds open to the past and retaining some faith in our future, rejecting the logic-chopping rational for the widely if hazily reasonable, refusing to be cut off from instinct and intuition.
我們依然保留著一些英國人特性，使我們對過去能保持清醒的認識，對未來也還保持著一些信心，排斥那些通過詭辯式邏輯得出的理性結論，而寧愿接受那些雖然不被完全理解但卻完全合乎情理的東西，拒絕拋棄自己原有的本能與直覺。
