美国语文第六册 第180期:论幸福感(2)

（单词翻译）

Everything furnished him with an opportunity of mirth;

对他而言，周围所有的一切都向他提供了欢愉的机会。

and though some thought him, from his insensibility, a fool, he was such an idiot as philosophers should wish to imitate.

虽然有人根据他表面上的满不在乎断定他是个傻子，但他确是连哲学家都想仿效的傻瓜。

They who, like that slave, can place themselves all that side of the world in which everything appears in a pleasant light,

那些同这位苦工一样的人，能将自己置于这样的地位，即世间的一切似乎都是快乐的明灯，

will find something in every occurrence to excite their good humor.

他们发现每件事情都能激发他们的幽默感。

The most calamitous¹ events, either to themselves or others, can bring no new affliction;

那些最悲惨的事情，不论对他们自己还是别人，都不会带来新的痛苦。

the world is to them a theater, in which only comedies are acted.

对他们来说，整个世界就是一个大剧场，而里面上演的永远只有喜剧。

All the bustle² of heroism³, or the aspirations⁴ of ambition, seem only to heighten the absurdity⁵ of the scene, and make the humor more poignant⁶.

所有的个人英雄主义或施展抱负的强烈愿望，似乎只会提高演出本身的荒谬性，使得幽默更能深深打动人的内心。

They feel, in short, as little anguish⁷ at their own distress⁸, or the complaints of others, as the undertaker, though dressed in black, feels sorrow at a funeral.

简而言之，他们对自己的悲惨境地或他人的抱怨一点也不觉得苦恼，尽管在葬礼上着黑衣服会令人觉得悲呛。

Of all the men I ever read of, the famous Cardinal⁹ de Retz possessed¹⁰ this happiness in the highest degree.

至于我在书中读过的那些人，著名的雷斯大主教拥有最高程度的幸福感。

When fortune wore her angriest look,

当命运女神现出气愤之极的神情时，

and he fell into the power of Cardinal Mazarin, his most deadly enemy, (being confined a close prisoner in the castle of Valenciennes,)

雷斯大主教落入他最可怕的敌人马扎林大主教的掌握之中（被囚禁在瓦伦西安城堡），

he never attempted to support his distress by wisdom or philosophy, for he pretended to neither.

他从未试图通过智慧或哲学来排解痛苦，因为他假装自己对两者一窍不通。