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LESSON 76 INDIAN JUGGLERS
第七十六課 印第安耍把戲者
Coming forward and seating himself on the ground, in his white dress and tightened turban,
走上前坐在地上，他身著白色衣服，包頭巾系得緊緊的，
the chief of the Indian jugglers begins with tossing up two brass balls, which is what any of us could do, and concludes by keeping up four at the same time,
這位印度耍把戲者先是開始向上擲兩個銅球。他這一手隨便誰都會，最后，他同時向上擲四個，
which is what none of us could do to save our lives, not if we were to take our whole lives to do it in.
這一手恐怕我們當中沒有誰能做到，如果不是用畢生時間來練習的話。
Is it then a trifling power we see at work, or is it not something next to miraculous?
這是我們在工作中看到的微不足道的能力，難道它算不上奇跡嗎？
It is the utmost stretch of human ingenuity,
它是人類巧智最大限度的延伸，
which nothing but the bending the faculties of body and mind to it from the tenderest infancy
只不過從最幼弱的嬰兒期到成年階段，
with incessant, ever-anxious application up to manhood, can accomplish or make even a slight approach to.
身體和心智能力總是焦急地服從于巧智。
Man, thou art a wonderful animal, and thy ways past finding out!
人類是一種奇妙的動物，可以擁有發(fā)現(xiàn)過去的方式！
Thou canst do strange things, but thou turnest them to small account!
你可以做一些讓別人摸不著頭腦的事情，但你還可以把這些事輕描淡寫，略過一遍！
To conceive of this extraordinary dexterity, distracts the imagination and makes admiration breathless.
為了構想出這種非同尋常的靈巧，要分散對想象的注意力，使贊嘆扣人心弦。
