名人演讲稿萧伯纳在七十寿辰宴会上的讲话(中英对照).doc

名人演讲稿萧伯纳在七十寿辰宴会上的讲话(中英对照) July 26, 1926 1926年7月26日 Of late years the public have been trying to tackle me in every way they possibly can, and failing to make anything of it they have turned to treating me Bs a great man. This is a dreadful fate to over- take anybody. There has been a distinct attempt to do it again now, and for that reason I absolutely decline to say anything about the celebration of my seventieth birthday. But when the Labor Party, my old friends the Labor Party, invited me here I knew that l should be all right.. 　　近几年来，公众***想方想法对我发难，在一无所获以后，又转而把我捧为伟人。不管谁碰上这类事都是可怕的灾难。现在，明显又有人想故技重演。因此，对庆祝我70寿辰的活动，我完全谢尽发表任何意见。不过，当我的工党老朋友们请我到这里来时，我知道不会有麻烦。 Now, however, we have built up a constitutional Party. We have built it up on a socialistic basis. My friend, Mr. Sidney Webb, Mr. Macdonald and myself said definitely at the beginning that what we had got to do was to make the Socialist Party a constitutional party to which any respectable God-fearing man could belong without the slightest compromise of his respectability. We got rid of all those traditional that is why Governments in the present day are more afraid of us than they were of any of (此 资 料 转 贴 于 the Radical people. 　　不管怎样，我们现在已建立了一个立宪党，我们已把它建立在社会主义的基础之上。我和我的朋友西德尼·韦布先生及麦克唐纳先生一开始就明确说过，我们必须做的就是把社会党变成一个拥戴宪法的党，使任何可敬的、虔诚的人都能在个人尊严丝尽不受侵犯的情况下加进这个党。我们革除陈规陋习，这就是为甚么比起任何持激进观点的人来，政府目前更怕我们。 Our position is a perfectly *** one and we have the great advantage of understanding our position. We oppose socialism to capitalism. 　　我们的态度是非常简单明确的，我们的极大上风在于理解自己的态度。我们用社会主义来反对资本主义。 According to the capitalists, there will be a guara11tee to the world that every man in tile country would get a job. They didn‘t contend it would be a well-paid job, because if it was well paid a man would save up enough one week to stop working the next week, and they were determined to keep a man working the whole time on a bare subsistence wage - and, on the other hand, pide an accumulation of capita1. 　　依照资本家的观点，完全可以保证这个国家人人都能得到一份职业。他们不主张那份职业