英翻一班李笑男 a modest proposal教学讲义.pptVIP

A Brief Introduction of 19 Paragraph My Own Understanding A Modest Proposal 英翻一班 李笑男 陈晓琳 孙琦琪 张敏 Some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed, and I have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken to ease the nation of so grievous an encumbrance. 一些心灰意冷的人对数目庞大的穷苦人民感到担忧，这些人老的老，病的病，残的残，我极其渴望运用我的才智,让我们的国家采取措施清除这些令人忧心的累赘。 But I am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known, that they are every day dying, and rotting, by cold, and famine, and filth, and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected. 我并非对此毫无恻隐，众所周知，他们每天都在垂死、腐烂，为饥饿寒冷所迫，与尘菌虫鼠为伍，快得正如可以合理地预料的那样。 And as to the younger labourers, they are now in almost as hopeful a condition.They cannot get work, and consequently pine away from want of nourishment to a degree that if at any time they are accidentally hired to common labour, they have not strength to perform it, and thus the country and themselves are happily delivered from the evils to come. 那些年轻的劳动者，他们现在几乎也和老弱病残一样可悲。他们找不到工作，就算有某个偶然的机会，可以做一名低贱的劳工，他们也没有力气做好，最终因为营养不良而形如槁木，国家和他们自己都十分高兴因此摆脱了厄运。 Jonathan Swift worked very hard to improve the living conditions of the poor people. In order to join in the struggle of the Irish people against their English oppressors, he returned to Ireland . He wrote some pamphlets concerning Ireland, in all of which he told of the miseries of the Irish people and spoke up against social injustice in Ireland, particularly against the cruel oppression and exploitation carried on there by the English ruling class. the longing for love, Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. What I Have Lived for? ......Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to the earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine,