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It was a cool, calculating, money-making murder.
這是一樁冷酷的，經過周密計劃的因錢財而起的謀殺。
It was all "hire and salary, not revenge." It was the weighing of money against life;
這不過是因“雇傭和薪酬”而起的謀殺，不是因為報復。這是基于生活而對金錢進行的權衡；
the counting out of so many pieces of silver against so many ounces of blood.
流了多少盎司的血，就能數出多少銀幣。
An aged man, without an enemy in the world, in his own house, and in his own bed,
一位上了年紀的人，在這個世界上沒有一個敵人，在他自己家里躺在自己的床上，
is made the victim of a butcherly murder for mere pay. Truly, here is a new lesson for painters and poets.
卻成為一樁殘忍謀殺的犧牲品，兇手僅僅為了少得可憐的報酬。確實，這為畫家和詩人提供了活生生的素材。
Whoever shall hereafter draw the portrait of murder, if he will show it as it has been exhibited in an example,
此后不論誰來畫兇手的肖像，倘若他能像在一個實例中表現的那樣描繪出來的話，
where such example was last to have been looked for, in the very bosom of our New England society,
而這個實例在我們新英格蘭社會非常溫暖的懷抱中是人們希望看到的，
let him not give it the grim visage of Moloch, the brow knitted by revenge,
那么就不要讓他畫猙獰的神情，不要畫被因為復仇而眉頭緊鎖，
the face black with settled hate, and the bloodshot eye emitting livid fires of malice.
不要畫因為憎恨而面色鐵青，不要畫冒著歹毒的怒火布滿血絲的眼睛為好。
Let him draw, rather, a decorous, smooth-faced, bloodless demon; a picture in repose, rather than in action;
相反，要將惡魔那張冷酷的臉畫得端莊得體，平靜如水；要畫他寧靜安詳的樣子，而不是活動時的樣子。
not so much an example of human nature in its depravity, and in its paroxysms of crime, as an infernal nature,
不要過多渲染突發的犯罪中人類本性的墮落，作為一種內在的本性，
a fiend in the ordinary display and development of his character.
正常情況下流露出來的魔性及其個性的發展。
