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"You'd have a reason for chastity!" said the Savage, blushing a little as he spoke the words.
“你們有理由需要貞操！”野蠻人說，說時有點臉紅了。
But chastity means passion, chastity means neurasthenia.
但是貞操意味著激情，意味著產生神經衰弱
And passion and neurasthenia mean instability. And instability means the end of civilization.
而激情和神經衰弱卻意味著不安定；從而意味著文明的毀滅。
You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices.
沒有大量風流罪過就不可能有持久的文明。
But God's the reason for everything noble and fine and heroic. If you had a God …
但是上帝是產生一切高貴、善良和英勇的東西的原因。如果你們有上帝的話……
"My dear young friend," said Mustapha Mond, civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism.
“親愛的年輕朋友，”穆斯塔法.蒙德說，文明絕對不需要什么高貴和英雄主義。
These things are symptoms of political inefficiency.
這類東西都是沒有政治效率的病癥。
In a properly organized society like ours, nobody has any opportunities for being noble or heroic.
在我們這樣的有合理組織的社會里，沒有人有機會表現高貴或英勇。
Conditions have got to be thoroughly unstable before the occasion can arise.
這種機會只能夠在環境完全混亂時出現：
Where there are wars, where there are divided allegiances, where there are temptations to be resisted,
在戰爭的時候，在派別分化的時候，在需要抵制誘惑的時候，
objects of love to be fought for or defended–there, obviously, nobility and heroism have some sense.
在爭奪或保衛愛的對象的時候——顯然，在那種時候高貴和英雄主義才會有點意義。
But there aren't any wars nowadays.
可是現在是沒有戰爭的。
The greatest care is taken to prevent you from loving any one too much.
我們為防止對某一個對象愛得太深，做出了極大的努力。
There's no such thing as a divided allegiance; you're so conditioned that you can't help doing what you ought to do.
我們這里沒有派別分化這個東西。你的條件設置又讓你忍不住要做你應該做的事；
And what you ought to do is on the whole so pleasant, so many of the natural impulses are allowed free play,
而你應該做的事總體說來又是非常愉快的，能夠讓你任意發泄你的種種自然沖動，
that there really aren't any temptations to resist.
實際上不存在需要你去抵抗的誘惑。
And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen,
即使由于某種不幸的意外確實出現了不愉快的事情，
why, there's always soma to give you a holiday from the facts.
那好，還有唆麻讓你遠離現實去度唆麻假；
And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering.
永遠有唆麻可以平息你的怒氣，讓你跟敵人和解，讓你忍耐，讓你長期承受痛苦。
