The Future of the English
Paraphrase
1. The English people may hotly argue and abuse and quarrel with each other but there still exists a lot of natural sympathetic feeling for each other. 2. What the wealthy employers would really like to do is to whip all the workers whom they consider to be lazy and troublesome people. 3. There are not many snarling shop stewards in the work-shop, nor are there many cruel wealthy employers on the board of managers (or governing board of a factory). 4. The contemporary world demands that everything be done on a big scale and the English do not like or trust bigness. 5. At least on the surface, when Englishness is put against the power and success of Admass, English ness seems to put up a rather poor weak performance. 6. Englishness is not against change, but it believes that changing just for changing and for no other useful purpose to be very wrong and harmful. 7. To regard cars and motorways as more important than houses seems to Englishness a public stupidity~ 8. I must further say that while Englishness can go on fighting, there is a great possibility of Admass winning. 9. Englishness draws its strength from a reservoir of strong moral and ethical principles, and soon it may be asking for strength which this reservoir of principles cannot supply. 10. These people probably believe, as I do, that the 'Good Life' promised by Admass is false and dishonest in all respects. 11. He will not even find much satisfaction in his untidy and disordered life where he manages to live as a parasite by sponging on people. This kind of life does not help a person to build up any self-respect. 12. These people think of the House of Commons as a place rather far away where some people are always quarreling and arguing over some small matter. 13. If a dictator comes to power, these people then will soon learn in the worst way that they were very wrong to ignore politics for they can now suddenly and for no reason be arrested and thrown into prison.
Translation
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1.他们甚至比自己想象中的英国人还要不同，倒是同他们自己感觉中的英国人差不多。(para.1)
2.这是因为在英国人当中狂热的盲从分子较少，同时，在他们那一片乱哄哄的争论、谩骂和吵闹的背后，还蕴藏着一股河海般深厚、纯真的同胞之情。这种情谊虽然还不到充溢的程度，却还没有枯竭。(para.2)
3.那些“与众不同的”真正地道的英国人，由于继承了英国人的特性而又尚未抛弃这一祖传特性，因而对于这个代表了整个时代日新月异的发展形势的现代世界感到不很习惯。(para.3)
4.相形之下，至少从表面上看，英国人特性似乎只是一场微不足道的影子戏——就像是五彩缤纷的广告 画旁边贴着的一幅淡色的铅笔素描——它实际上属于不可见的内 心世界，不能为人们提供那品类繁多的物质用品，而只能提供精 神上的境界。(para.4)
5.然而，值得顺便提一下的是，在多年 来一直是商业广告推销的主要倡导者的美国，我们看到有太多太 多的伤透了脑筋的经理人员过早地跌进了坟墓；有太多太多的筋疲力竭的推销员躲进酒吧借酒浇愁，弄得家庭破裂；还有许许多多的工人成天忍受着单调乏味的时间一动作研究的苦楚，心中在 纳闷：不知自己究竟是怎样陷入这些坑人的陷井的。(para.5)
6.再说英国人特性，因与潜意识相关联，又依赖于本能和直觉而存 在，故不能割断与过去的联系：它根深蒂固。源远流长。(para.5)
7.而且，尽 管英国人并不反对变革，但对于为变革而变革的做法却深怀疑虑， 对那种认为我们现在必须无条件地欢迎机械化的进步的观点也拒 不接受。(para.5)
8.在无休止的争吵，突然的罢工，让许多外国评论家迷惑不解的咄咄逼人的固执背后是这样一种矛盾：一方面是商业广告推销，向你提供众多的东西；一方面是英国人特性，本能地对这种商业广告推销的价值观和生活方式感到反感。(para.8)
9.不仅如此，他们迟早要解决这种商业广告推销和他们残存的一些英国人特性之间的矛盾，下决心站到这一边或那一边，因为他们不能同时享有二者。(para.8)
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