评论
打印
But, alas![qh]
可是，天哪，[qh]
for me to do wrong that never did right, was no great wonder.[qh]
我这个人老是把事情办糟，却从未办好过一件事情；[qh]
I hail no remedy but to go on:[qh]
这种行事处世对我来说又不足为怪了。现在我已别无选择，只能勉强维持下去。[qh]
I had got into an employment quite remote to my genius, and directly contrary to the life I delighted in,[qh]
现在的生计与我的天性和才能是完全不相称的，与我所向往的生活也大相径庭。[qh]
and for which I forsook my father’s house, and broke through all his good advice.[qh]
为了我所向往的生活，我违抗父命，背井离乡。[qh]
Nay, I was coming into the very middle station, or upper degree of low life, which my father advised me to before,[qh]
我现在经营种植园，也快过上我父亲一直劝我过的中产阶级生活了。[qh]
and which, if I resolved to go on with, I might as well have stayed at home, and never have fatigued myself in the world as I had done;[qh]
但是，如果我真的想过中产阶级的生活，那我可以完全呆在家里，何必在世界上到处闯荡，劳苦自己呢？[qh]
and I used often to say to myself, I could have done this as well in England,[qh]
要过上中产阶级的生活，我完全可以留在英国，[qh]
among my friends, as have gone five thousand miles off to do it among strangers and savages, in a wilderness,[qh]
生活在亲朋好友中间，又何必千里迢迢，来到这举目无亲的荒山僻壤之地，与野蛮人为伍呢？[qh]
and at such a distance as never to hear from any part of the world that had the least knowledge of me.[qh]
在这儿，我远离尘世，谁也不知道我的音讯。[qh]
In this manner I used to look upon my condition with the utmost regret.[qh]
每当我想到自己目前的境遇，总是悔恨不已。[qh]
I had nobody to converse with, but now and then this neighbour;[qh]
除了偶尔与我的那位邻居交往外，简直没有其他人可以交谈。[qh]
no work to be done, but by the labour of my hands;[qh]
我也没有什么工作可做，只有用自己的双手辛苦劳作。[qh]
and I used to say, I lived just like a man cast away upon some desolate island, that had nobody there but himself.[qh]
我老是对自己说，我就像被丢弃在一个杳无人烟的荒岛上，形单影只，雀然一身。[qh]
But how just has it been - and how should all men reflect, that when they compare their present conditions with others that are worse,[qh]
可是，当人们把自己目前的处境与境况更糟的人相比时，[qh]
Heaven may oblige them to make the exchange, and be convinced of their former felicity by their experience –[qh]
老天往往会让他们换一换地位，好让他们以自己的亲身阅历，体会过去生活的幸福。老天爷这么做是十分公道的。对此，我们人人都得好好反省一下。[qh]
I say, how just has it been, that the truly solitary life I reflected on, in an island of mere desolation,[qh]
我把自己目前的生活，比作荒岛上孤独的生活，结果我真的命中注定要过这种生活，[qh]
should be my lot, who had so often unjustly compared it with the life which I then led,[qh]
那正是因为我不应该不满足于当前的境遇。老天爷这样对待我，也真是天公地道的。[qh]
in which, had I continued, I had in all probability been exceeding prosperous and rich.[qh]
要是我真的继续我当时的生活，也许我可以变成个大富翁呢！[qh]
