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Thus, love of a country
這樣，對(duì)一個(gè)地方的愛(ài)戀
Begins as attachment to our own field of action
始于我們對(duì)自己的活動(dòng)場(chǎng)所的依附
And comes to find that action of little importance
終于發(fā)現(xiàn)這種活動(dòng)沒(méi)多大意義
Though never indifferent. History may be servitude,
雖然決不是冷漠。歷史也許是奴役，
History may be freedom.
歷史也許是自由。
See, now they vanish, the faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them,
瞧，那一張張臉一處處地方隨著那盡其是能愛(ài)過(guò)它們的自我一起，現(xiàn)在它們都消失了，
To become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.
而在另一種模式下更新，變化。
Sin is Behovely, but all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
罪是不可避免的，但是一切終將安然無(wú)恙，而且時(shí)間萬(wàn)物也終將安然無(wú)恙。
If I think, again, of this place,
如果我又一次想起這個(gè)地方，
And of people, not wholly commendable,
又一次想起那些人，他們并非全都值得稱道，
Of no immediate kin or kindness,
既非直系親屬也非性情和善之輩，
But some of peculiar genius,
卻是一些具有特殊才能的人，
All touched by a common genius,
他們都受了一種共同的思潮的感召，
United in the strife which divided them;
而聯(lián)合在把他們分裂為營(yíng)壘的斗爭(zhēng)中；
If I think of a king at nightfall,
如果我在黃昏時(shí)分想起一位國(guó)王，
Of three men, and more, on the scaffold
想起三個(gè)和更多的人被處決在絞刑架上
And a few who died forgotten in other places, here and abroad,
還有一些死后默默無(wú)聞的人在其他地方，在這里和國(guó)外，
And of one who died blind and quiet
我也想起一個(gè)雙目失明悄然死去的人，
