00600高级英语 中英翻译B13_Selected Snobberies00600高级英语 中英翻译B13_Selected Snobberies.doc

Lesson ThirteenSelected Snobberies势 利 种 种阿尔多斯?赫胥黎Lesson Thirteen Selected Snobberies13-1 All men are snobs about something. One is almost tempted to add : There is nothing about which men cannot feel snobbish.人人都有势利之处。人们几乎很想加一句：任何东西都可引起人们的势利感。But this would doubtless be an exaggeration(夸張).不过这一点无疑会是一种夸张。There are certain disfiguring(毀容) and mortal(致命) diseases about which there has probably never been any snobbery.也许对某些毁容或致命的疾病从来没有使人感到势利，I cannot imagine, for exameple, that there are any leprosy-snobs.例如我无法想像会有麻风病势利者。More picturesque diseases, even when they are dangerous, and less dangerous diseases, particularly when they are the diseases of the rich, can be and very frequently are a source of snobbish self-importance.一些纵使有危险但较为别致的疾病，以及不太危险的病，特别是富人爱得的病，能够并常常是使人感到势利、自以为了不起的根源。I have met several adolescent consumption-snobs , who thought that it would be romantic to fade away in the flower of youth , like Keats or Marie Bashkirtseff. Alas,我遇见过好几位因患肺结核而有势利感的年轻人，他们觉得很像济慈或玛丽?巴什基尔采夫那样在青春妙龄时死去是很浪漫的一件事。the final stages of the consumptive fading are generally a good deal less romantic than these ingenuous young tubercle-snobs seem to imagine .哎呀，结核病晚期通常远远不像这些天真的年轻结核势利者想像得那么浪漫。To anyone who has actually witnessed these final stages, the complacent poeticizings of these adolescents must seem as exasperating (惱怒)as they are profoundly pathetic（可憐）. In the case of those commoner disease-snobs, whose claim to distinction is that they suffer from one of the maladies of the rich, exasperation(惱怒) is not tempered by very much sympathy.　　对任何一个亲眼目睹过晚期状态的人，这些少年的自我满足的浪漫诗情必定会显得既令人恼怒又深觉可怜。至于那些较常见疾病的势利者，由于得的是有钱人易得的病而自称与众不同，对他便没有多少同情来减少恼怒了。People who possess sufficient leisure, sufficient wealth, not to mention sufficient health, to go travelling from spa to spa. from doctor to fashionable doctor, in search of cures from problematical diseases (which, in so far as they exist at all. probably have their source in overeating) cannot expect us to be