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LESSON 108 DESTRUCTION OF THE CARNATIC
第一百零八課 卡那提克的毀滅
When at length Hyder Ali found that he had to do with men who either would sign no convention,
當(dāng)最終海德·阿里發(fā)現(xiàn)他不得不與這些人打交道，他們要么不在協(xié)議上簽字，
or whom no treaty and no signature could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself,
要么協(xié)議和簽名不在一起，決心與人類交往慣例為敵時(shí)，
he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind.
他頒布命令使這個(gè)國家歸這些無可救藥和注定的罪犯所有，對人類來講無疑是一個(gè)值得銘記的先例。
He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance,
他暗下決心，留給卡那提克一個(gè)永恒的報(bào)復(fù)紀(jì)念，
and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together was no protection.
將永遠(yuǎn)的荒涼作為他和那些堅(jiān)信這個(gè)世界道德因素?zé)o需保護(hù)的人之間的屏障。
He became at length so confident of his force, so collected in his might, that he made no secret whatsoever of his dreadful resolution.
他對自己的力量抱有堅(jiān)定的信心，對自己的威力如此鎮(zhèn)定自若，以至于不論自己那可怕的決心是什么，他都不會(huì)保守這個(gè)秘密。
Having terminated his disputes with every enemy and every rival,
結(jié)束了與每個(gè)敵人和每個(gè)對手的爭論，
who buried their mutual animosities in their common detestation against the creditors of the Nabob of Arcot,
這些人將他們相互之間的敵意都埋進(jìn)在他們反對艾爾科特的地方長官的同仇敵愾里了，
he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction;
他從能為他的毀滅藝術(shù)增添新的基礎(chǔ)的任何殘暴行徑汲取靈感，
and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
將所有暴怒、大破壞和荒涼的原材料組合到一塊烏云里，他暫時(shí)在高山的斜坡上堅(jiān)守。
