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课文讲解与赏析
从创作中看作者思维
（观察与推断）
第三课
At the
tailors
Between
the
chaos
of
Regent*
Street
and
the
opulent
bustle
of
New
Bond Street
is a
little region that is curiously hushed.
(both are busy
streets in the fashionable Went End of London)
opulent
:
.
富裕的
,
充足的
;
an
opulent
palace.
Characterized
by
rich
abundance;
luxuriant.
1
Bustle
喧闹
:
Excited and
often noisy activity
2
Chaos:
混乱
A condition or place of
great disorder or confusion.
3
Hush:
To keep
from public knowledge; suppress mention
of.
A contrast
between bustling streets and the quiet
region .
It
is
made
up
of
short
streets
that
pretend
to
run
parallel
to
one
another,
but
actually go off at all angles.
(1)pretend : To give a
false appearance of.
(2) personification : To think of or
represent (an
inanimate object or
abstraction) as
having personality or
the qualities, thoughts, or movements of a living
being:
(3)
appear to be running parallel to one another but
actually going off at all angles:
implying a conflict between appearance
and actuality
(7)
At
a
first
glance
these
streets
appear
to
be
filled
with
the
offices
of
very
old
firms
(2)
of
family solicitors
(1)
. Many
of their windows have severe wire screens, The
establishments
(3)
there
have
a
certain
air
of
dignified
(4)
secrecy,
not
unlike
that
of
servant of the old school, those
impassive
(5)
butlers
(6)
who appeared to
know nothing,
but really knew
everything.
(1)
solicitor
初级律师
: An attorney
who is not a member of the bar and who may be
heard only in the lower courts.
bar:
律师业
(
英
)
(2)
firm:
公司
,
(
合
伙
)
商号
The
name
or
designation
under
which
a
company
transacts business.
(3) establishment: A place of residence
or business with its possessions and staff. A
public or private institution, such as
a hospital or school.
(4)
dignified : Having or expressing dignity.
(5)
impassive
冷漠的；冷漠的，无表情的；无动于衷的，冷漠的
:
Revealing
no
emotion; expressionless.
(6) butler :The head servant in a
household who is usually in charge of food
service,
the care of silverware, and
the deportment of the other servants.
(7) again emphasizing appearance and
reality
There
is little evidence that anything is being sold in
this part of the world. The
electric-
light
bills
must
be
very
modest
indeed,
for
there
are
no
flashing
signs
to
assault
侵袭
the eye,
no gaudily
俗丽地
dressed
windows to tempt the feet
to loiter
闲荡
,
.
Whatever the season, no
sales* are held there.
You
are not invited to stop a
moment longer
than you may wish to do.
(
implying not appealing, not
actively drawing your attention
)
Now and
then you catch sight of a
roll of cloth, a pair of riding
breeches
马裤
or,
perhaps, a sober little drawing of a
gentleman in evening clothes, and as you pass you
can
hear
these
things
whispering:
you
are
a
gentleman
and
wish
to
Wear
the
clothes
that a gentleman should wear, kindly make an
appointment here and we will
see
what
we
can
do
for
you
Money,
of
course,
is
not
mentioned,
this
being
impossible, in all such gentlemanly
transactions.
(Observation
is not simply passive awareness of something
perceived before
. It is,
rather, a deliberate mental activity;
we probe a subject in order to discover as much as
possible
about
it.
Practice
in
observation
gradually
educates
us
to
be
more
selective
—
to know
what to look for, to find the most meaningful
aspects of what is
being observed, and
to note the relationships that bind the parts into
a whole.
For this is the
region, Savile* Row, Conduit Street, Maddox Street
and the rest, of
the
tailors
or
-
rather
---
the
tailors*.
(
personal
feeling
)Enter
it
wearing
a
cheap,
ready-
made suit, and immediately the poor thing begins
to bag
松垂
in some places
and
shrivel
up
in
others.
If
you
have
the
audacity
厚颜
(as
I
once
had)
actually
to
walk
into one of these establishments wearing a ready-
made suit, you will regret it.
Nothing
is
said,
but
a
glance
from
one
of
the
higher
officials
here
strips
you
and
quietly deposits your apparel
in the dust-bin.
The hush here
is significant. It
might,
be
described
as
old-World,
and
for
a
very
good
reason,
too.
(
comparison
and
constrast
)In
a
new
world
in
which
anything,
will
do
so
long
as
it
arrives
quickly and easily, this region has
fallen sadly behind the
times: It is still engaged in
the old quest
for
perfection.
Behind these
wire screens the search for the absolute
still goes on. Tailoring here remains
one of the arts.
There are
men in this quarter
who
could
announce
in
all
sincerity
that
trousers
are
beauty,
beauty
trousers*,
(Parody)
< br>山不在高，
，
有仙则名。
在深，
有龙则灵．
斯是
陋室，
惟吾德罄。
苔痕上阶
绿，
草色入帘青。谈笑有鸿
儒，往来无白丁。可以调素：
琴，阅金经，无丝竹之乱
耳，无案牍之劳形。南阳诸
葛庐，西蜀子云亭。
孔子云：何陋之有
?
5
官不在高，有场则名。
才不在深，有盐则灵。斯虽
陋吏，惟利是罄。丝圆
堆案
白，色减入枰青。谈笑有场
商。往来皆灶丁。无须调鹤
琴，不离经．无
刑钱之聒
耳，
有酒色之劳形。
或借远
公庐，
或醉竹西序。
孔子云；
何陋之有
?
分不在高，及格就行．
’
学不在深，作弊就灵．斯是
教室，惟吾闲情。
小说传得
快，杂志翻得勤。琢磨下象棋，寻思看电影，可以打瞌睡，写家信。
无书
声之乱
耳，
无复习之劳心。
虽非跳
舞场，
堪比游
乐厅。
心里云：
混张文凭。
and that is all
we know and need to know.
*
For them the smallest
seam
(A
line of
junction
缝合线
)
they
sew can give thoughts that do often lie too deep
for
tears. That they are artists and
not tradesmen is proved by the fact that, unlike
tradesmen,
they
do
not
labour
to
please
their
customers,
but
to
please
themselves
。
A tailor who is
a mere shopkeeper fits you until you are
satisfied.
These
artists
go
on
fitting
you
until
they
are
satisfied,
and
that
means
they
continue long after you have lost all
interest in the matter.
You
stand there, a
mere body or lay
figure, and they still
go on
delicately
ripping out sleeves and
collars
with
their
little
pen-
knives,
pinning
and
unpinning,
and
making
mysterious signs with
chalk, and you have long ceased to understand what
all the
bother is
about. And
even then
they may tell you, quietly
but firmly, that they
must
have another fitting.
That
they should do this to me is
proof
positive of
their
disinterested
（
Free of bias
and self-interest;
impartial
）
passion for the art
of
tailoring.
I
never
walk
into
my
own
tailor's
without
feeling
apologetic
（
Self-deprecating; humble
自贬的；
谦卑的
.
）
I know I am
unworthy of their efforts.
It is as if
a man without an ear for music should be invited
to spend an evening with
the Lener
Quartet *.
四重奏
. I am the kind
of man who can make any suit of clothes
look shabby and undistinguished after
about a fortnight's wear. Perhaps the fact that I
always carry about with me two or three
fairly large pipes, matches, about two ounces
of
tobacco,
a
wallet,
cheque-book,
diary,
fountain-pen,
knife,
odd
keys,
and
loose
change,
to say nothing of old letters, may have something
to do with it.
I can never
under- stand how a man can
contrive(
To bring about, as by
scheming; manage:
治家，
料理家务；
巧妙应付
I
can
contrive
without
meat.
我没有
肉也能凑合（吃这顿
饭）
。
He
contrived to make the matter worse.
他图谋使事情恶化。
) to look neat and
spruce (
Neat, trim, and
smart in appearance.
) and do anything
else.
Wearing clothes
properly seems to me to be a full-time
job
全天工作
, and as I happen to
have a great
many other, more important
or more amusing, things to do, I cheerfully bag
and sag
and look as if I had slept in
my suits.
I can say this
cheerfully here, but once I am inside my tailors'
I immediately
begin
to
feel
apologetic.
(
反客为主
reverse
the
position
of
the
host
and
the
guest
)
They do not say anything, but there is
mournful reproach in their eyes as they
turn them upon their ruined
sonnets
(A 14-line verse)
and
sonatas
奏鸣曲
(=
阳春
白雪
highbrow
art
and
literature
not
下里巴人
popular
literature
or
art
).
One
day
I
shall
call
upon
them
in
evening
clothes
because
I
fancy
(
认为
suppose;
guess.)
they
are
not
so
bad
as
the
lounge
suits
普通西装
.
But
I
do
not
know;
they may see enormities
(
sensitive to flaws;
.
挑剔
,
吹毛求疵
nit-pick
The
quality of
passing all moral bounds;
excessive wickedness or outrageousness.
超过所有道
德限制的品性；
穷凶极恶或凶暴
A monstrous
offense or evil; an outrage.
骇人听
闻的罪恶行径；
暴行
) where
I see nothing; and so
perhaps I had better keep the
fate
of
their
masterpieces
hidden
from
them.
Possibly
they
whisper
to
one
another, when they see me slouching in,
looking like a man who
might buy his
clothes
through
the
post
(mail
order
firm
邮购公
司
)
one
of
those
gentlemen
who're
a
bit
careless
during
the
day.
I
shouldn't
wonder,
I
hear
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