美麗新世界 Brave New World 第4章(7)

Helmholtz Watson was writing when the messagecame down.

電話打來(lái)時(shí)赫姆霍爾茲華生先生正在寫(xiě)作。

"Tell him I'm coming at once," he said and hung upthe receiver. Then, turning to his secretary, "I'll leaveyou to put my things away," he went on in the sameofficial and impersonal tone;

“告訴他我立刻就來(lái)，”他說(shuō)畢掛上了話筒，然后轉(zhuǎn)身對(duì)秘書(shū)說(shuō)，“我的東西就交給你收拾了。”他對(duì)她那明媚的微笑不予理會(huì)，仍用公事公辦的口氣說(shuō)著話，

and, ignoring her lustrous smile, got up and walkedbriskly to the door.

同時(shí)站起身子，迅速來(lái)到了門(mén)邊。

He was a powerfully built man, deep-chested, broad-shouldered, massive, and yet quick in hismovements, springy and agile.

赫姆霍爾茲·華生先生身體壯實(shí)，深厚的胸膛，寬闊的肩頭，魁梧的個(gè)子，可是行動(dòng)迅速，步履矯捷而富于彈性。

The round strong pillar of his neck supported a beautifully shaped head.

脖子像一根結(jié)實(shí)的圓柱，撐起一個(gè)輪廓美麗的頭。

His hair was dark and curly, his features strongly marked.

深色的鬈發(fā)，五官棱角分明。的確漂亮非凡，引人注目。

In a forcible emphatic way, he was handsome and looked, as his secretety was never tired ofrepeating, every centimetre an Alpha Plus.

正如他的秘書(shū)所不疲倦地重復(fù)的：每一公分都是個(gè)阿爾法加。

By profession he was a lecturer at the College of Emotional Engineering (Department ofWriting) and the intervals of his educational activities, a working Emotional Engineer.

他的職業(yè)是情緒工程學(xué)院寫(xiě)作系的講師，業(yè)余又從事教育活動(dòng)，是個(gè)在職的情緒工程師。

He wrote regularly for The Hourly Radio, composed feely scenarios, and had the happiest knackfor slogans and hypnop.dic rhymes.

他定期為《每時(shí)廣播》寫(xiě)稿，寫(xiě)感官片腳本，而且精通寫(xiě)口號(hào)和睡眠教育順口溜的奧妙。

"Able," was the verdict of his superiors. " Perhaps, (and they would shake their heads, wouldsignificantly lower their voices) "a little too able."

能干，他的上司對(duì)他的評(píng)價(jià)是，“也許，(說(shuō)到此他們便搖搖頭，含義深刻地放低了嗓門(mén))過(guò)分能干了一點(diǎn)。”

Yes, a little too able; they were right.

是的，過(guò)分能干了一點(diǎn)，他們沒(méi)有錯(cuò)。

A mental excess had produced in Helmholtz Watson effects very similar to those which, inBernard Marx, were the result of a physical defect.

智力過(guò)高對(duì)于赫姆霍爾茲·華生所產(chǎn)生的后果跟生理缺陷對(duì)于伯納·馬克思所產(chǎn)生的后果很為相似。

Too little bone and brawn had isolated Bernard from his fellow men, and the sense of thisapartness,

骨架太小肌肉太少讓伯納和他的伙伴們疏遠(yuǎn)了。

being, by all the current standards, a mental excess, became in its turn a cause of widerseparation.

從一切流行標(biāo)準(zhǔn)看來(lái)，那種疏遠(yuǎn)都是心靈所難以承受的，于是他和他們之間疏遠(yuǎn)得更厲害了。

That which had made Helmholtz so uncomfortably aware of being himself and and all alone wastoo much ability.

而使赫姆霍爾茲極不愉快地意識(shí)到自己和自己的孤獨(dú)的則是過(guò)分能干。

What the two men shared was the knowledge that they were individuals.

兩人共同的感覺(jué)都是孤獨(dú)。

But whereas the physically defective Bernard had suffered all his life from the consciousnessof being separate, it was only quite recently that, grown aware of his mental excess,Helmholtz Watson had also become aware of his difference from the people who surroundedhim.

可是有生理缺陷的伯納感到孤獨(dú)的痛苦已經(jīng)有一輩子;而赫姆霍爾茲·華生因?yàn)橐庾R(shí)到自己過(guò)分聰明、跟周?chē)娜说牟町悈s是新近的事。

This Escalator-Squash champion, this indefatigable lover (it was said that he had had sixhundred and forty different girls in under four years), this admirable committee man and bestmixer had realized quite suddenly that sport, women, communal activities were only, so far ashe was concerned, second bests.

這位自動(dòng)扶梯手球冠軍，這位不知疲倦的情人(據(jù)說(shuō)他四年不到就有過(guò)六百四十個(gè)不同的姑娘)，這位可敬的委員、交際能手最近才突然明白了一個(gè)道理：游戲、女人、社交對(duì)他只能算是第二等的好事。

Really, and at the bottom, he was interested in something else.

實(shí)際上(也是根本上)他感到興趣的是另外一個(gè)問(wèn)題。

But in what? In what? That was the problem which Bernard had come to discuss with him–orrather,since it was always Helmholtz who did all the talking, to listen to his friend discussing, yetonce more.

什么問(wèn)題?那正是伯納要來(lái)跟他討論的問(wèn)題——或者說(shuō)，要來(lái)聽(tīng)他再談?wù)劦膯?wèn)題，因?yàn)檎勗挼挠肋h(yuǎn)是赫姆霍爾茲。

Three charming girls from the Bureau of Propaganda by Synthetic Voice waylaid him as hestepped out of the lift.

赫姆霍爾茲一跨出電梯便受到三個(gè)迷人的姑娘攔路襲擊——她們剛踏出了合成聲宣傳局。