外文资料翻译 The Dramas of Resentment 怨恨的戏剧性.docVIP

外文资料原文： The Dramas of Resentment By Amelie Oksenberg Rorty (Adopted from The Yale Review[J], Blackwell Publishers, INC, 2000. P 89~ 97) The resentment whose drams I explore here is the resentment that is focused on a wound that has become infected and threatens to spread. The injury is not perceived as necessary or as merely accidental: no one resents mortality or the common cold. Infected and enduring resentment can be directed to circumstances and situations, as well as to people or groups. Resentment and indignation. Although resentment is often allied, and sometimes fused, with indignation, the two are nevertheless distinguishable by their typical scenarios and consequences. Targeted resentment carries a story of grievance. The perpetrators are presumed to have been primarily responsible for an unwarranted injury that they could have-and should have-been able to avoid. While it is possible to resent having been harmed by someone that one cannot identify, targeted resentment is generally expressed by characterizing or naming specific offenders: Palestinians resent those who condone (what they see) as the Israeli occupation of their land. In such case the resentful tend to describe their grievances in great detail; they often harbor ill will to the perpetrators of their injuries, but they need not have a general theory about the injustice of their situation. Unlike those who suffer targeted resentment, the indignant tend to take themselves to represent other, similar cases of dishonor or oppression. They often describe and justify their indignation in general terms, without necessarily targeting specific offenders as responsible for their wrongs. Parents who resent the inequities of their children’s access to sound education or to adequate medical care can, without charging any particular official, implicitly justify their resentment by a general principle: “Discriminating inequality is disrespectful, unfair, unjust.” Similarly, a Turk whose family has lived i