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E-T-4 Envy by Samuel Johnson 论嫉妒 塞缪尔(约翰逊 Envy is almost the only vice which is practicable at all times, and in every place — the only passion which can never lie quiet for want of irritation; its effects therefore are everywhere discoverable, and its attempts always to be dreaded. 嫉妒是唯一可以时时刻刻都到处作祟的人性缺点，是唯一一种即使不受到刺激也在蠢蠢欲动的强烈感情；其恶劣影响随处可见，所用行径令人胆颤。 所有的人性缺点中，唯有嫉妒无时不在，无处不有。它也是唯一一种即使不受刺激也总在蠢蠢欲动的强烈情感。嫉妒所带来的恶果随处可见，嫉妒行为也令人胆颤心惊。 It is impossible to mention a name which any advantageous distinction has made eminent, but some latent animosity will burst out. The wealthy trader, however he may abstract himself from public affairs, will never want those who hint, with Shylock, that ships are but boards. The beauty, adorned only with the unambitious graces of innocence and modesty, provokes, whenever she appears, a thousand murmurs of detraction. The genius, even when he endeavours only to entertain or instruct, yet suffers persecution from innumerable critics, whose acrimony is excited merely by the pain of seeing others pleased, and of hearing applauses which another enjoys. 每当听到某人因出类拔萃而著名时，一些人就会心生憎恶。一位富商无论怎样与世无争，也会有人像夏洛克那样对他含沙射影道：再大的帆船也会烂成破木板；一位美女就算再低调、清纯、谦逊，所到之处也会受到无数流言蜚语的诋毁；一位天才就算他只是想要娱乐或指导大家，也会遭到无数批评者围攻，这些批评者每当看到他人开怀或者享受到众人的掌声时，内心的痛苦就会化作尖刻的批评。 The frequency of envy makes it so familiar that it escapes our notice; nor do we often reflect upon its turpitude or malignity, till we happen to feel its influence. When he that has given no provocation to malice, but by attempting to excel, finds himself pursued by multitudes whom he never saw, with all the implacability of personal resentment; when he perceives clamour and malice let loose upon him as a public enemy, and incited by every stratagem of defamation; when he hears the misfortunes of his family, or the follies of his youth, exposed to the world; and every failure of conduct, or defect of nature, aggravated and ridiculed; he then learns to abhor those artifices at which he only laughed before, and discovers how m