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The Savage stood for a moment in frozen silence, then fell on his knees beside the bed and, covering his face with his hands, sobbed uncontrollably.
野蠻人呆住了，默默地站了一會兒，然后在床前跪下，雙手捂住臉，無法抑制地嗚咽起來。
The nurse stood irresolute, looking now at the kneeling figure by the bed (the scandalous exhibition!)
護(hù)土猶豫不決地站著，望望跪在床前的人（那表情可真丟臉！），
and now (poor children!) at the twins who had stopped their hunting of the zipper and were staring from the other end of the ward,
再看看孩子們（他們真可憐！），他們已經(jīng)停止了找拉鏈，從病房那頭望了過來，
staring with all their eyes and nostrils at the shocking scene that was being enacted round Bed 20.
瞪著大眼望著二十號病床邊這場令人惡心的表演。
Should she speak to him? try to bring him back to a sense of decency? remind him of where he was?
她應(yīng)當(dāng)跟他說話，讓他恢復(fù)羞恥感嗎？讓他明白自己的處境嗎？
of what fatal mischief he might do to these poor innocents?
讓他知道他對這些可憐的無真無邪的孩子們會帶來什么樣致命的痛苦嗎？
Undoing all their wholesome death-conditioning with this disgusting outcry–as though death were something terrible,
他會用他這種惡心的叫喊破壞孩子們一切正常的死亡條件設(shè)置的——仿佛死亡是什么可怕的東西，
as though any one mattered as much as all that!
會有人覺得那么嚴(yán)重似的！
It might give them the most disastrous ideas about the subject, might upset them into reacting in the entirely wrong, the utterly anti-social way.
那很可能讓孩子們對這個問題產(chǎn)生最災(zāi)害性的想法，攪亂他們，使他們做出完全錯誤的、反社會的反應(yīng)。
She stepped forward, she touched him on the shoulder.
護(hù)士長走向前來，碰了碰他的肩頭。
"Can't you behave?" she said in a low, angry voice.
“你能不能規(guī)矩點(diǎn)？”她怒氣沖沖低聲說道。
But, looking around, she saw that half a dozen twins were already on their feet and advancing down the ward.
但是她四面看看，看見六七個孩子已經(jīng)站起身子，往病房這邊走來了。
The circle was distintegrating.
圓圈快要散了。
In another moment … No, the risk was too great;
馬上就……不，那太冒險，
the whole Group might be put back six or seven months in its conditioning.
整個一群孩子的條件設(shè)置可能因此而推遲六七個月。
She hurried back towards her menaced charges.
她趕快向她負(fù)責(zé)的遭到危險的孩子們跑回去。
