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Unit 1 Thinking as a
Hobby
by William Golding
1 While I was
still a boy, I came to the conclusion that there
were three grades of
thinking,
and
since
I
was
later
to
claim
thinking
as
my
hobby,
I
came
to
an
even
stranger conclusion
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namely, that I myself
could not think at all.
开头说发现我不会思考
2 It was the headmaster of my grammar
school who first brought the subject of
thinking
before
me.
He
had
some
statuettes
in
his
study.
They
stood
on
a
high
cupboard
（碗柜，
食厨）
behind his desk. One was a lady wearing
nothing but a bath
towel. She seemed
frozen in an eternal panic lest
（唯恐，
担心，
以免）
the bath towel
slip down any farther, and since she
had no arms, she was in an unfortunate position
to pull the towel up again. Next to
her, crouched
（蜷伏的）
the statuette of a
leopard
（豹）
, ready to spring
down at the top drawer of a filing
cabinet
（档案橱柜）
Beyond
the leopard was a
naked
（裸体的，
无装饰的）
,
muscular gentleman, who sat, looking
down, with his
chin
（下巴）
on his
fist
（拳）
and his
elbow on his knee. He seemed
utterly
（完全地）
miserable.
校长的三个雕
塑，
一个裹着浴巾的女人，
一只蜷伏的豹，
一个裸体沉思的男
人
3 Some time later,
I learned about
these
statuettes. The headmaster had placed
them where they would face delinquent
（怠忽的，
有过失的，
流氓）
children, because
they
symbolized to him to whole of life. The naked lady
was Venus. She was Love.
She was not
worried about the
towel
（毛巾，
纸巾）
. She
was just busy being beautiful.
The
leopard was Nature, and he was being natural. The
muscular gentleman was not
miserable.
He was Rodin's Thinker, an image of pure thought.
4
I
had
better
explain
that
I
was
a
frequent
visitor
to
the
headmaster's
study,
because
of
the
latest
thing
I
had
done
or
1eft
undone.
As
we
now
say,
I
was
not
integrated
（综合的，协调的）
. I
was, (if anything
）
, disinteg
rated
（分裂的，奔溃
的）
,
and I was puzzled. Whenever I found myself in a
penal
（刑事的，刑罚的）
position before the headmaster's desk,
I would sink
（下沉，沉没，降低）
my
head,
clasp
（扣住，紧紧缠绕）
my hands behind my back, and
writhe
（翻滚，扭动，苦
恼）
one
shoe
（鞋，蹄铁，给。。。穿鞋）
over the other.
5
The headmaster would look at me and
say,
6 “What are we going to
do with you?”
7 Well, what
were they going to do with me? I would writhe my
shoe some more
and stare down at the
worn rug
（旧地毯）
.
8 “Look up, boy! Can’t you look
up?”
9 Then
I
would look
at
the
cupboard, where the naked lady was frozen
in
her
panic and
the muscular gentleman
contemplated
（沉思，预期的）
the
hindquarters
（两条后腿）
of the leopard in endless
gloom
（昏暗）
I had
nothing to say to the
headmaster. His
spectacles
（眼镜，大场面）
caught the light so that you could see
nothing human behind them. There was no
possibility of communication
10 “Don't you ever think at
all?”
11 No, I didn't think,
wasn't thinking, couldn't think
---
I was simply waiting in
anguish
（痛苦，苦恼，使极度痛苦）
< br>
for the interview to
stop.
12
---
hadn't you?
13 On one occasion the headmaster leape
d
（跳跃，
极速移动，
剧增）
to his feet,
reached
up and
pu
t Rodin's masterpiece
（杰作，绝无仅有的人）
on the desk
before
me.
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15 Clearly there was
something missing in me. Nature had
endowed
（捐赠，给
与，赋予）
the rest of the human race with a sixth
sense and 1eft me out. But like
someone
born deaf, but bitterly
（
苦涩地，
悲痛地）
determined
to find out about sound,
I began to
watch my teachers to find out about the
thought.
16 There was Mr.
Houghton. He was always telling me to think. With
a modest
satisfaction,
he
would
tell
me
that
he
had
thought
a
bit
himself.
Then
why
did
he
spend
so
much
time
drinking?
Or
was
there
more
sense
in
drinking
than
there
appeared to be? But if
not, and if drinking were in fact
ruinous
（破坏性的，零落的）
to health
---
and
Mr Houghton was ruined, there was no doubt about
that
---
why was
he always talking about the clean life
and the virtues of fresh air?
17 Sometimes,
exalted
（高尚的，赞扬，使激动）
by his own
oratory
（雄辩，
演讲术）
,
he would leap
（飞跃，猛冲）
from his desk and hustle
（推搡，
强力将
某人往某方向赶）
us
outside into a
hideous
（可怕的，丑恶的）
wind.
18
，
boys! Deep breaths! Feel it
right down inside you
---
huge draughts
（气流）
of God's
good air!
19
He
would
stand
before
us,
put
his
hands
on
his
waist
（腰）
and
take
a
tremendous
（巨大的，
惊人的）
breath. You could hear the wind,
trapped
（捕获）
in
his chest and struggling with all the
unnatural impediments.
（妨碍，
阻止
）
His body
would
reel
（
迷惑，
震惊）
with shock and his ruined face go white at the unaccustomed
（不习惯的，奇怪的）
v
isitation.
（访问，视察）
He would
stagger
（蹒跚，交错
的）
back to his desk and collapse
（倒塌
倒下
崩溃）
there, useless for the
rest of
the morning.
20 Mr Houghton was given to high
-
minded
monologues
（
独白）
about the good
life, sexless
and full of duty. Yet in the middle of one of
these monologues, if a girl
passed the
window, his neck would turn of itself and he would
watch her out of sight.
In
this
instance,
he
seemed
to
me
ruled
not
by
thought
but
by
an
invisible
and
irresistible
（不能坚持——极度诱人的，不可抵
抗的）
spring in his
neck.
Mr.H
的独白
21 His neck was an object
of great interest to me. Normally it bulged
（肿大，
充
满）
a bit
over his
collar
（衣领，
项圈）
.
But Mr. Houghton had fought in the First World
War alongside
（在旁边，
与。
。
。
合作，
沿着。
。
的边）
both Americans and French,
and had come to a
settled
（稳定的，固定的）
detestation of both countries. If
either
happened to be
prominent
（突出的，显著的，卓越的）
in current
（流，趋势，
涌流）
affairs,
no argument could make Mr Houghton think well of
it. He would bang
（重击，突然巨响）
the desk, his neck
would bulge
（膨胀，突出）
still further and
go red.
-
--
and
I know what
I think!
Mr.H
曾在一战
服役，他的脖子充满了衣领。
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Mr. Houghton thought with his neck.
23 This was my introduction to the
nature of what is commonly called thought.
Through
them
I
discovered
that
thought
is
often
full
of
unconscious
prejudice,
ignorance
（无知，愚昧，不知，不懂）
, and hypocrisy
（
hypo
< br>-
,
在下，
-
< br>kris,
分开，筛选，
评论，词源同
< br>crisis,critic.
虚伪
）
< br>. It will lecture
（演讲，讲稿，教训）
on disinterested
（无私的，
公正的，
冷漠的，
廉洁的）
purity
（纯度，
纯洁，
纯粹）
while its neck
is being remorselessly
（
re
-
,
向后，
往回，
mors
-
,<
/p>
咬，
词源同
m
ordant,morsel.
比喻用法，
懊悔，
指责。
无悔意的，
冷酷的）
twisted
（扭动）
toward a skirt. Technically, it is
about as
proficient
（精通的）
as
most
businessmen's
golf,
as
honest
as
most
politician's
intentions
（目的，
意向）
, or as coherent
（
连贯的，
明了的，
清晰的）
as
most books
that get written. It is what
I came to call grade
-
three
thinking, though more properly, it
is
feeling, rather than thought.
作者发现了思考的含义。
思想充满了无意识的偏见，
无知和
虚伪。
第三层思
考的含义。
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