(单词翻译:单击)
中英文本
Far-right parties do not all hold the levers of power, but they stalk its corridors, releasing their ugly permissions into the mental and social atmosphere. "We're only saying what everyone is thinking" is the common justification and refrain. They wrap themselves in the mantle of redemption, as if they were saving the world from burning injustice (righteousness raised to the pitch of frenzy is the particular skill of the far right). "Hate can exist without any particular individuals," comments the narrator of Edouard Louis's bestselling 2016 novel History of Violence, which narrates the story of his rape after a casual encounter on the Paris city streets. "All it needs is a place where it can come back to life."
极右政党并非都掌握着权力的杠杆,但他们却在走廊上徘徊,把他们丑陋的权限释放到精神和社会氛围中
It is a paradox of human subjectivity that knowing you are capable of violence – recognising it as your problem, instead of blithely assigning it to someone else (of another race, class, nation or sex) – reduces the chances of making it happen. The idea of crushing violence – stamping it out or eradicating it from the Earth – simply increases the quotient of violence we have to face. We have seen this before, at the centre of 20th-century Europe, in the belief that the first world war would be the war to end all wars, a delusion that allowed that same war and its aftermath to carry on silently laying the groundwork for the next.
这是人类主观性的一个悖论:知道你有使用暴力的能力——承认它是你的问题,而不是轻松地把它分配给别人(另一个种族、阶级、国家或性别)——降低了暴力发生的机会
We are all subjects of violence, not least because we are embedded in a violent social world. There is always a point in any ethical position or turn – the struggle against injustice, the fight for a better, less violent order – where it starts and stutters, trips and breaks, before setting out on its path once more. At the beginning of The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt writes: "What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think about what we are doing."
我们都是暴力的受害者,尤其是因为我们生活在一个暴力的社会世界
If there is one thing of which writing about violence has convinced me, it is that if we do not make time for thought – which must include the equivocations of our inner lives – we will do nothing to end violence in the world, while we will surely be doing violence to ourselves.
如果有一件关于暴力的写作让我信服的话,那就是如果我们不腾出时间来思考——这肯定包括我们内心生活的含糊其辞——我们不会采取任何行动来结束世界上的暴力,而我们肯定会对自己施暴
词语解释
1.stamp out 扑灭,踩灭
They take emergency measures to stamp out crime.
他们采取紧急措施来消灭犯罪
2.equivocation 含糊话,模棱两可的话
These actions must be condemned without equivocation.
对这些行为必须毫不含糊地予以谴责
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