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LESSON 104 COLLOQUIAL POWERS OF FRANKLIN
第一百零四課 富蘭克林的話語感染力
Never have I known such a fireside companion. Great as he was both as a statesman and philosopher,
我從未見過像他這樣可以在爐邊推誠置腹的朋友。作為政治家和哲學家他都堪稱偉大。
he never shone in a light more winning than when he was seen in a domestic circle.
他在國內時從來沒有獲得如此高的推崇。
It was once my good fortune to pass two or three weeks with him, at the house of a private gentleman, in the back part of Pennsylvania,
我有幸在一位故交位于賓夕法尼亞后方的家中，與他盤桓過兩三個星期。
and we were confined to the house during the whole of that time by the unintermitting constancy and depth of the snows.
在那段時間里由于大雪皚皚，我們被困在那里，中途沒有因為任何事情打擾而稍有中斷。
But confinement never could be felt where Franklin was an inmate.
但是，大雪的耽擱并沒有影響我將富蘭克林引為知己。
His cheerfulness and his colloquial powers spread around him a perpetual spring.
他的樂天達觀和話語感染力讓人有永遠如沐春風之感。
When I speak, however, of his colloquial powers, I do not mean to awaken any notion analogous to that which Boswell has given us of Johnson.
然而，當我提到他的話語感染力時，我并非有意喚醒讀者諸君對博斯維爾評價約翰生的類似聯想。
The conversation of the latter continually reminds one of the "pomp and circumstance of glorious war."
后者的談話一直提醒我們“華麗戰爭的壯觀和情境”。
It was, indeed, a perpetual contest for victory, or an arbitrary or despotic exaction of homage to his superior talents.
確實，這是為勝利而進行的永無休止的競爭，或者是對他超卓才能表示崇敬的一種主觀和獨斷的苛求。
