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Then you think there is no God?
那么你認為上帝是沒有的？
No, I think there quite probably is one.
不，我倒認為上帝十之八九是有的。
Then why? …
為什么？……
Mustapha Mond checked him. But he manifests himself in different ways to different men.
穆斯塔法.蒙德打斷了他的話。但是上帝對不同的人有不同的表現。
In premodern times he manifested himself as the being that's described in these books. Now …
在現代期以前上帝的表現正如這本書里所描述的?？墒乾F在……
"How does he manifest himself now?" asked the Savage.
“可是現在上帝是怎樣表現自己的呢？”野蠻人問。
Well, he manifests himself as an absence; as though he weren't there at all.
喔，他表現為一種虛無的存在；仿佛根本不存在。
That's your fault.
那可是你們的錯。
Call it the fault of civilization. God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.
把它叫做文明的錯吧。上帝跟機器、科學醫藥和普遍的幸福是格格不入的。
You must make your choice.
你必須做出選擇。
Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
我們的文明選擇了機器、醫藥和幸福。
That's why I have to keep these books locked up in the safe.
因此我就把這些書鎖進了保險箱。
They're smut. People would be shocked it …
它們骯臟，會嚇壞人的……
The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?"
野蠻人打斷了他?！翱墒?，感到上帝的存在不是很自然的嗎？”
"You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically.
“你倒不如問：穿褲子拉拉鏈不也是很自然的嗎？”總統尖刻地說，
You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley.
你叫我想起了另外一個這樣的老頭，他叫布拉德利。
He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct.
他對哲學下的定義是：為自己出于本能所相信的東西尋找出的蹩腳的解釋！
As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
仿佛那時人們的信仰是出于本能似的！一個人相信什么是由他的條件設置決定的。
Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons–that's philosophy.
找出些蹩腳理由為自己因某種蹩腳理由相信的東西辯護——那就是哲學。
People believe in God because they've been conditioned to. "But all the same," insisted the Savage,
人們相信上帝因為他們的條件設置使他們相信?！翱墒乔闆r還是一樣，”野蠻人堅持不懈，
it is natural to believe in God when you're alone–quite alone, in the night, thinking about death …
在孤獨的時候你就相信上帝，當你很孤獨，在夜里，思考著死亡的時候。
"But people never are alone now," said Mustapha Mond. We make them hate solitude;
“可是現在人們是決不會孤獨的，”穆斯塔法蒙德說，我們把他們制造得仇恨孤獨；
and we arrange their lives so that it's almost impossible for them ever to have it.
我們為他們安排的生活使他們幾乎不可能孤獨。
