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He got up again and walked to the safe.
他走到保險箱前。
"There was a man called Cardinal Newman," he said. "A cardinal,"
“有個人叫紐曼主教，”他說，“是個紅衣主教，”
he exclaimed parenthetically, "was a kind of Arch-Community-Songster."
他解釋道，“也就是社區首席歌唱家一流的人物。”
I Pandulph, of fair Milan, cardinal. I've read about them in Shakespeare.
哦，美麗的米蘭的潘杜爾夫，紅衣主教，我在莎士比亞里面讀到過。
Of course you have. Well, as I was saying, there was a man called Cardinal Newman. Ah, here's the book.
你當然讀到過。好了，我剛才說到，有個人叫紐曼紅衣主教。啊，就是這本書。
He pulled it out. And while I'm about it I'll take this one too.
他抽了出來。我要談紐曼的書，也想談談這一本書，
It's by a man called Maine de Biran. He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.
是一個叫麥因.德.畢蘭的人寫的。他是個哲學家——你要是知道什么是哲學家的話。
"A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth," said the Savage promptly.
“就是能夢想出許多東西的人，夢想的東西比天地間的事物還多。”野蠻人立即回答。
Quite so. I'll read you one of the things he did dream of in a moment.
說得很對，我馬上就給你念一段他確實夢想出的東西。
Meanwhile,listen to what this old Arch-Community-Songster said.
現在你聽一聽這位古時候的首席歌唱家的話。
He opened the book at the place marked by a slip of paper and began to read.
他在夾了一張紙條的地方翻開，讀了起來，
We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own.
我們并不比我們所占有的東西更能夠支配自己。
We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves.
我們并沒有創造出自己，也無法超越自己。
We are not our own masters. We are God's property.
我們不是自己的主人，而是上帝的財富。
Is it not our happiness thus to view the matter?
這樣來看問題難道不是我們的一種幸福嗎？
Is it any happiness or any comfort, to consider that we are our own? It may be thought so by the young and prosperous.
認為自己能夠支配自己能得到幸福嗎，能得到安慰嗎？少年得志的人可能這樣想，
These may think it a great thing to have everything, as they suppose, their own way–to depend on no one–to have to think of nothing out of sight,
以為能使一切事物按他們的想法及方式做很了不起，不必依靠任何人。對視野以外的東西一律不予考慮，
to be without the irksomeness of continual acknowledgment, continual prayer, continual reference of what they do to the will of another.
不必因為總需要感謝別人，征求別人的意見，總需要祈禱而煩惱。
But as time goes on, they, as all men, will find that independence was not made for man–that it is an unnatural state–will do for a while,
可惜隨著時光的流逝，這些少年得志的人也必然會跟別人一樣發現，人未必是天生獨立的——獨立狀態并不是自然狀態。獨立在一定時間內也許可能，
but will not carry us on safely to the end, Mustapha Mond paused,
卻無法使我們平安到達目的地,穆斯塔法.蒙德停了停，
put down the first book and, picking up the other, turned over the pages.
放下第一本書，拿起了第二本翻著。
