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LESSON 99 SPEECH ON THE TRIAL OF A MURDERER
第九十九課 關于審判殺人兇手的演講
Against the prisoner at the bar, as an individual, I can not have the slightest prejudice.
對于受到公開審判的囚犯，作為一個個體，我不能懷有哪怕最微不足道的偏見。
I would not do him the smallest injury or injustice.
我不會給他哪怕最小程度的傷害或不公正。
But I do not affect to be indifferent to the discovery and the punishment of this deep guilt.
但是，我不會假裝對這一嚴重犯罪的偵破和懲罰無動于衷。
I cheerfully share in the opprobrium, how much soever it may be,
不論有多大，我都欣然與大家共同分擔這一恥辱，
which is cast on those who feel and manifest an anxious concern that all who had a part in planning,
那些對參與策劃或在暗殺當夜實施這一惡行的人，表示和顯露出關切的人，
or a hand in executing this deed of midnight assassination,
這一恥辱會在他們內心投下揮不去的陰影，
may be brought to answer for their enormous crime at the bar of public justice. This is a most extraordinary case.
也許對為維護公義而公開審判的大量犯罪負有罪責。這是一個最奇特的事例。
In some respects it has hardly a precedent anywhere; certainly none in our New England history.
從某方面看，在任何地方都幾乎沒有先例；可以肯定的是，在我們新英格蘭歷史上絕對沒有出現過這種情形。
This bloody drama exhibited no suddenly excited, ungovernable rage.
這出血淋淋的戲劇并沒有突然間展現出令人興奮和無法控制的狂怒。
The actors in it were not surprised by any lionlike temptation springing upon their virtue,
其中的演員也沒有被超越他們德性的任何獅子般的誘惑嚇倒，
and overcoming it before resistance could begin.
在開始抗拒之前就戰勝了這種誘惑。
Nor did they do the deed to glut savage vengeance, or satiate long-settled and deadly hate.
他們也沒有做能充分滿足殘忍報復欲望的事情，或者對積郁已久的極端憎恨厭膩。
