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Only an Epsilon can be expected to make Epsilon sacrifices, for the good reason that for him they aren't sacrifices;
爱扑塞隆式的牺牲只能由爱扑塞隆来做。有个很好的理由，爱扑塞隆们并不觉得在做牺牲。
they're the line of least resistance.
他们是抵抗力最小的一群。
His conditioning has laid down rails along which he's got to run.
他们的条件设置给他们铺好了轨道，让他们非沿着轨道跑下可，
He can't help himself; he's foredoomed.
他们早就命定了要倒霉，情不自禁要跑。
Even after decanting, he's still inside a bottle–an invisible bottle of infantile and embryonic fixations.
即使换了瓶他们仍然在瓶子里——他们被一种看不见的瓶子像婴儿一样、胚胎一样固定。
Each one of us, of course, the Controller meditatively continued, goes through life inside a bottle.
当然，我们每个人的一生，总统沉思地说，都是在一种瓶子里度过的。
But if we happen to be Alphas, our bottles are, relatively speaking, enormous.
可我们如果幸而成了阿尔法，我们的瓶子就相对而言比较广阔。
We should suffer acutely if we were confined in a narrower space.
把我们关在狭窄的空间里我们就会非常痛苦。
You cannot pour upper-caste champagne-surrogate into lower-caste bottles. It's obvious theoretically.
理论上很明显，你不能把高种姓的代香摈加过低种姓的瓶子里。
But it has also been proved in actual practice. The result of the Cyprus experiment was convincing.
而在实践上，也已经得到了证明。塞浦路斯实验的结果是很有说服力的。
"What was that?" asked the Savage.
“什么实验？”野蛮人问。
Mustapha Mond smiled. Well, you can call it an experiment in rebottling if you like. It began in A.F. 473.
穆斯塔法.蒙德微笑了。你要是愿意可以称之为重新换瓶实验。是从福帝纪元四七三年开始的。
The Controllers had the island of Cyprus cleared of all its existing inhabitants and re-colonized with a specially prepared batch of twenty-two thousand Alphas.
总统清除了塞浦路斯岛上的全体居民，让两万两千个专门准备的阿尔法住了进去。
All agricultural and industrial equipment was handed over to them and they were left to manage their own affairs.
给了他们一切工农业设备，让他们自己管理自己。
The result exactly fulfilled all the theoretical prediotions.
结果跟所有的理论预计完全吻合。
The land wasn't properly worked; there were strikes in all the factories;
土地耕种不当；工厂全闹罢工；
the laws were set at naught, orders disobeyed;
法纪废弛；号令不行。
all the people detailed for a spell of low-grade work were perpetually intriguing for high-grade jobs,
指令做一段时间低级工作的人总搞阴谋，要换成高级工种。
and all the people with high-grade jobs were counter-intriguing at all costs to stay where they were.
而做着高级工作的人则不惜一切代价串联回击，要保住现有职位。
Within six years they were having a first-class civil war.
不到六年功夫就打起了最高级的内战。
When nineteen out of the twenty-two thousand had been killed,
等到二十二万人死掉十九万，
the survivors unanimously petitioned the World Controllers to resume the government of the island.
幸存者们就向总统们送上了请愿书，要求恢复对岛屿的统治。
Which they did. And that was the end of the only society of Alphas that the world has ever seen.
他们接受了。世界上出现过的唯一全阿尔法社会便是这样结束了。
The Savage sighed, profoundly.
野蛮人深沉地叹了一口气。
