美國語文第五冊 第91期：香水月季（04）

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Well, after all, how odd! When one gives to poor people, one wants to give them something useful—a bushel of potatoes, a ham, and such things.

好了，不管怎么說，你真夠搞怪！如果想送窮人東西，送點實用的東西總是不錯，比如，一麻袋土豆，或一條火腿什么的。

Why, certainly, potatoes and ham must be supplied;

天呀！確實，土豆或火腿都是不可少的，

but, having ministered to the first and most craving wants,

那是窮人生存的首選或最渴望得到的東西，

why not add any other little pleasures or gratifications we may have it in our power to bestow?

可是，我們?yōu)槭裁淳筒荒芙o窮人精神上的微薄快樂，使她們內(nèi)心獲得少許喜悅，而這些，對我們來說不過舉手之勞？

I know there are many of the poor who have fine feeling and a keen sense of the beautiful,

我知道，許多窮人情感豐富，對美好事物相當敏銳，

which rusts out and dies because they are too hard pressed to procure it any gratification.

可他們活得實在艱難，也就自然鈍化或磨滅了內(nèi)在美好。

Poor Mrs. Stephens, for example; I know she would enjoy birds, and flowers, and music as much as I do.

否則，就鳥類花草或音樂欣賞能力而言，史蒂芬夫人，雖窮，亦絕不比我少。

I have seen her eye light up as she looked upon these things in our drawing room and yet not one beautiful thing can she command.

我留意到，那次斯蒂芬夫人來到我們家，仔細打量客廳里那些藝術(shù)擺件，盡管沒說一句話，可她的眼睛很亮。

From necessity, her room, her clothing,—all she has, must be coarse and plain.

你看看她家的陋屋、那些衣物還有居家必需品，當然雜亂不堪。

You should have seen the almost rapture she and Mary felt when I offered them my rose.

你也該看到，當我想說把香水月季送給她們，她和女兒瑪麗幾乎欣喜若狂。

Dear me! all this may be true, but I never thought of it before.

天呀！這些或許不假，不過，我以前從未想到這些，

I never thought that these hard-working people had any ideas of taste!

這些每天苦力勞作的窮人能有什么欣賞品位。