月亮与六便士中英文双语对照版_威廉·萨默赛特·毛姆.pdf

动天一0是置事超H9bG20d20021是25时CHAPTER004女610229第二章I confess that when first I made ac-我承认，在我第一次接触查quaintance with Charles Strickland I nev-尔斯斯特里克兰德时，我丝毫er for a moment discerned that there was没有注意到他有什么出众之处。in him anything out of the ordinary.Yet但是如今却几乎没有人不承认now few will be found to deny his great-他的伟大了。他的伟大不同于政ness.I do not speak of that greatness客的时来运转或是军人的一将which is achieved by the fortunate politi-功成，那些只不过是时势造英cian or the successful soldier;that is a雄，而一旦时过境迁，其价值将quality which belongs to the place he oc-大打折扣。人们常常发现，一位cupies rather than to the man;and a离任的首相看起来不过是个夸change of circumstances reduces it to夸其谈的政客，一个卸甲的将军very discreet proportions.The Prime项多算是个市井英雄。而查尔Minister out of office is seen,too often,to斯斯特里克兰德的伟大至真至have been but a pompous rhetorician,and纯。也许你不喜欢他的艺术，但the General without an army is but the无论如何你不能不对他产生兴tame hero of a market town.The great-趣。他的作品使你激情饱满，紧ness of Charles Strickland was authentic.扣心弦。如今他被当作笑料的时It may be that you do not like his art,but代早己过去，为他辩护不再离经at all events you can hardly refuse it the叛道，为他赞颂亦非奇行怪癖tribute of your interest.He disturbs and了。他的瑕疵在世人眼中己经成arrests.The time has passed when he was为他的优点的必不可少的派生an object of ridicule,and it is no longer a物了。虽然他在艺术史上的地位mark of eccentricity to defend or of per-可能有待商榷，崇拜者对他的赞versity to extol him.His faults are ac-颂和贬损者对他的诋毁当然有cepted as the necessary complement to可能是出于偏颇和任性，但有