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I tell you I
’
ve got
to paint. I
can’t
help
myself. When a man falls into the water it
doesn
’
t matter
how he swims, well or badly:
he
’
s got to get out or else
he
’
ll drown.
我告诉你
我必须画画儿。
我
由不了我自己。
一个
人要是跌进水里，
他游泳游得好不好是无关紧要的，
反正他得挣
扎出去，
不然就得淹死。
（
c12
）
He
seemed really to be possessed of a devil, and I
felt that it might suddenly turn and rend him.
It reminds you of a placid
rivulet, meandering smoothly through green
pastures and shaded by
pleasant trees,
till at last it falls into the vasty sea; but the
sea is so calm, so silent, so indifferent,
that you are troubled suddenly by a
vague uneasiness.
它使人想到一条平静的小河，
< br>蜿蜒流过绿茸茸的牧场，
与郁郁的树荫交相掩映，
直到最
后泻
入烟波浩渺的大海中。但是大海却总是那么平静，
总是沉默
无言、
声色不动，你会突然感到
一种莫名的不安。
But a fever in my
blood asked for a wilder course.
但是我的血液
里却有一种强烈的愿望，渴望一种更狂放不羁的旅途。
In my heart was a desire to live more
dangerously. I was not unprepared for jagged rocks
and
treacherous shoals if I could only
have change-change and the excitement of the
unforeseen.
只要我的人生能有变化——变化以及无法预见的未来带来的兴
奋刺激，
摆在我面前的就算是
怪石嶙峋的山崖和险象环生的滩涂
，我也愿意去闯一闯。
And I
think that was the vision that had remained with
him always, dazzling his eyes so that he
could not see the truth; and
notwithstanding the brutality of fact, he
continued to see with the
eyes
of
the
spirit
an
Italy
of
romantic
brigands
and
picturesque
ruins.
It
was
an
ideal
that
he
painted -- a poor one,
common and shop-soiled, but still it was an ideal;
and it gave his character
a peculiar
charm.
我觉得这是他永远也抛弃不掉的幻景，
这种幻景
闪得他眼花缭乱，
叫他看不到真实情景。
他
不顾眼前严酷的事实，
总用自己幻想的目光凝视着一个到处是浪漫主义的侠盗、
美丽如画的
废墟的意大利。
他画的是他理想
中的境界
——
尽管他的理想很幼稚、很庸俗、很陈旧，
但终
究是个理想；这就赋予了他的性格一种迷人的色彩。
I forget who it was
that recommended men for their soul's good to do
each day two things they
disliked: it
was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have
followed scrupulously; for every day I
have got up and I have gone to
bed.
（
chapter
2
）
我不记得是谁曾经建议过，
为了使灵魂宁静，
一个人每天要做两件他不喜欢的事。
说这句话
的人是个聪明人，
我也一直在一丝不苟地按
照这条格言行事：
因为我每天早上都起床，
每天
也都上床睡觉。
The
faculty
for
myth
is
innate
in
the
human
race.
It
seizes
with
avidity
upon
any
incidents,
surprising or
mysterious, in the career of those who
have at all distinguished themselves
from
their fellows, and invents a
legend to which it then attaches a fanatical
belief. It is the protest of
romance
against the commonplace of
life.
（
chapter
1
）
1.
制
造神话是人类的天性，对那些出类拔萃的人物，如果他们生活中有什么令人感到诧异或者迷惑不解的
事件，人们就会如饥似渴地抓住不放，编造出种种神话，而且深信不疑。这可以说是浪漫主义对平淡生
活
的一种抗议。
that civilised man practises a strange
ingenuity in wasting on tedious exercises the
brief span of
his life.
（
c8
）
文明社会这样
消磨自己的心智，把短促的生命浪费在无聊的应酬上实在令人莫解。
He was null. He was
probably a worthy member of society, a good
husband and father, an honest
broker;
but there was no reason to waste one's time over
him.
他是一个毫不引人注意的人。
他可能是一个令人起敬
的社会成员，
一个诚实的经纪人，
一个
恪尽职责的丈夫和父亲，但是在他身上你没有任何必要浪费时间。
（
c8
）
My
only
excuse
is
that
the
impression
they
made
on
me
was
no
other.
There
was
just
that
shadowiness about them
which you find in people whose lives are part of
the social organism, so
that they exist
in it and by it only. They are like cells in the
body, essential, but, so long as they
remain healthy, engulfed in the
momentous whole.
我只有一种辩解：他们给我的就是这样一个印象。
有些人的生活只是社会有机体的一部分，
他们只能生活在这个有机体内，
也只能依靠它而生活，
这种人总是给人以虚幻的感觉；
思特
里克兰德夫妇正是这样的人。
他们有如体内的细胞，
是身体所决不能缺少的，
但是只要他们
健康存
在一天，就被吞没在一个重大的整体里。
（
chapter
9
）
I
had not yet learnt how contradictory is human
nature; I did not know how much pose there is in
the sincere, how much baseness in the
noble, nor how much goodness in the reprobate.
我那时还不了解人性多么矛盾，
我不知道真挚中含有多少做作，
高尚中蕴藏着多少卑鄙，
或
者，即使在邪恶里
也找得着美德。
（
chapter
10
）
When last I saw him he was spruce
enough, but he looked ill at ease: now, untidy and
ill-kempt,
he looked perfectly at home.
I did not know how he would take the remark I had
prepared.
我上次见到他，
他修饰得整齐干净，
可是看去却不很自在；现在他邋里邋遢，神态却非常自
然。我不知道
他听了我准备好的一番话以后会有什么反应。
（
chapter
11
）
It
was
this:
I
asked
myself
whether
there
was
not
in
his
soul
some
deep-
rooted
instinct
of
creation,
which
the
circumstances
of
his
life
had
obscured,
but
which
grew
relentlessly,
as
a
cancer may grow in the
living tissues, till at last it took possession of
his whole being and forced
him
irresistibly to action.
我怀疑是否在他的灵魂中深深埋藏
着某种创作的欲望，
这种欲望尽管为他的生活环境掩盖着，
却一
直在毫不留情地膨胀壮大，
正象肿瘤在有机组织中不断长大一样，
直到最后完全把他控
制住，逼得他必须采取行动，毫无反抗能力。
With some men it needs a
cataclysm, as a stone may be broken to fragments
by the fury of a
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