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Only an Epsilon can be expected to make Epsilon sacrifices, for the good reason that for him they aren't sacrifices;
愛撲塞隆式的犧牲只能由愛撲塞隆來做。有個很好的理由，愛撲塞隆們并不覺得在做犧牲。
they're the line of least resistance.
他們是抵抗力最小的一群。
His conditioning has laid down rails along which he's got to run.
他們的條件設置給他們鋪好了軌道，讓他們非沿著軌道跑下可，
He can't help himself; he's foredoomed.
他們早就命定了要倒霉，情不自禁要跑。
Even after decanting, he's still inside a bottle–an invisible bottle of infantile and embryonic fixations.
即使換了瓶他們仍然在瓶子里——他們被一種看不見的瓶子像嬰兒一樣、胚胎一樣固定。
Each one of us, of course, the Controller meditatively continued, goes through life inside a bottle.
當然，我們每個人的一生，總統沉思地說，都是在一種瓶子里度過的。
But if we happen to be Alphas, our bottles are, relatively speaking, enormous.
可我們如果幸而成了阿爾法，我們的瓶子就相對而言比較廣闊。
We should suffer acutely if we were confined in a narrower space.
把我們關在狹窄的空間里我們就會非常痛苦。
You cannot pour upper-caste champagne-surrogate into lower-caste bottles. It's obvious theoretically.
理論上很明顯，你不能把高種姓的代香擯加過低種姓的瓶子里。
But it has also been proved in actual practice. The result of the Cyprus experiment was convincing.
而在實踐上，也已經得到了證明。塞浦路斯實驗的結果是很有說服力的。
"What was that?" asked the Savage.
“什么實驗？”野蠻人問。
Mustapha Mond smiled. Well, you can call it an experiment in rebottling if you like. It began in A.F. 473.
穆斯塔法.蒙德微笑了。你要是愿意可以稱之為重新換瓶實驗。是從福帝紀元四七三年開始的。
The Controllers had the island of Cyprus cleared of all its existing inhabitants and re-colonized with a specially prepared batch of twenty-two thousand Alphas.
總統清除了塞浦路斯島上的全體居民，讓兩萬兩千個專門準備的阿爾法住了進去。
All agricultural and industrial equipment was handed over to them and they were left to manage their own affairs.
給了他們一切工農業設備，讓他們自己管理自己。
The result exactly fulfilled all the theoretical prediotions.
結果跟所有的理論預計完全吻合。
The land wasn't properly worked; there were strikes in all the factories;
土地耕種不當；工廠全鬧罷工；
the laws were set at naught, orders disobeyed;
法紀廢弛；號令不行。
all the people detailed for a spell of low-grade work were perpetually intriguing for high-grade jobs,
指令做一段時間低級工作的人總搞陰謀，要換成高級工種。
and all the people with high-grade jobs were counter-intriguing at all costs to stay where they were.
而做著高級工作的人則不惜一切代價串聯回擊，要保住現有職位。
Within six years they were having a first-class civil war.
不到六年功夫就打起了最高級的內戰。
When nineteen out of the twenty-two thousand had been killed,
等到二十二萬人死掉十九萬，
the survivors unanimously petitioned the World Controllers to resume the government of the island.
幸存者們就向總統們送上了請愿書，要求恢復對島嶼的統治。
Which they did. And that was the end of the only society of Alphas that the world has ever seen.
他們接受了。世界上出現過的唯一全阿爾法社會便是這樣結束了。
The Savage sighed, profoundly.
野蠻人深沉地嘆了一口氣。
