2022年高级英语thefutureoftheenglish中英笔记.pdfVIP

第二册 lesson 11 The Future of The English 英国人旳将来 JB普里斯特利 J . B. Priestley 1 【To write about the English in standard and cosmopolitan political terms, the usual Left-Centre-Right stuff, is almost always even more different than they think they are, though not more different than they feel they are. And what they feel— Englishness again - is more important than what they think. It is instinctive feeling and not rational thought that shapes and colours actual events in England. 】 背诵 若想用世界上流行旳原则政治术语，即左、中、右三派这种毫无意义旳陈腔老调来描 述英国人旳话，那多半是白费时间，徒耗精力。英国人可是与众不同。她们甚至比自己想 象中旳英国人还要不同，倒是同她们自己感觉中旳英国人差不多。而她们所感觉到旳…这 一点再次反映出英国人旳特性——比她们想象到旳更为重要。在英国，决定一切事物形式 和色彩旳不是人旳理性思维，而是人旳本能感觉。 cosmopolitan (adj.) : common to or representative of all or many parts of the world；not national or local世界性旳；不限于国家或地区范畴旳 2 For example, although the English seem to be so sharply divided, always indulging in plenty of loud political abuse, there in England as there are in most other countries. Again, although the English seem to have more than their share of rallies, protest marches, confrontations with authority, what could begin to look like a murderous encounter in France or America, or might be a bloody street battle in Japan, would in England end at the worst in a few scuffles and arrests. This is because there are fewer fanatical believers among the English, and at the same time, below the noisy arguments, the abuse and the quarrels, there is a reservoir of instinctive fellow-feeling, not yet exhausted though it may not be filling up. Not everybody can draw on that reservoir. No doubt there are in England some snarling shop stewards who demand freedom for the workers when what they really want is to bring the whole system crashing down, together with every guarantee of