传记的

Among the sayings and discourses imputed to Him by His biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others, again, of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same Being.

在其传记作者所归于他的言论和布道中，我发现了充满美好想象、正确的道德和最可爱的仁慈的许多段落，但是我同样发现了那么多的无知，那么多的荒唐，那么多的虚假、蒙骗和欺诈，就象是宣布如此多的互相矛盾不可能来自于同一个人。

My eulogies, too, may be founded on a postulate which all may not be ready to grant. Among the sayings and discourses imputed to Him by His biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others, again, of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same Being.

在其传记作者所归于他的言论和布道中，我发现了充满美好想象、正确的道德和最可爱的仁慈的许多段落，但是我同样发现了那么多的无知，那么多的荒唐，那么多的虚假、蒙骗和欺诈，就象是宣布如此多的互相矛盾不可能来自于同一个人。

The historians, in reply to that inquiry, lay before us the sayings and doings of some dozens of men in one of the buildings of the city of Paris, summing up those doings and sayings by one word—revolution. Then they give us a detailed biography of Napoleon, and of certain persons favourably or hostilely disposed to him; talk of the influence of some of these persons upon others; and then say that this it is to which that activity is due, and these are its laws.

历史学家回答这一问题时，向我们叙述巴黎城内一座大楼里的几十个人的言行，称这些言行为革命；然后出版拿破仑的，以及同情或敌视他的人物的详细传记，讲述其中一些人对另一些人的影响，说出：这就是这一运动发生的原因，这就是它的规律。

It is the innocence of His character, the purity and sublimity of His moral precepts, the eloquence of His inculcations, the beauty of the apologues in which He conveys them, that I so much admire; sometimes, indeed , needing indulgence to eastern hyperbolism.

在其传记作者所归于他的言论和布道中，我发现了充满美好想象、正确的道德和最可爱的仁慈的许多段落，但是我同样发现了那么多的无知，那么多的荒唐，那么多的虚假、蒙骗和欺诈，就象是宣布如此多的互相矛盾不可能来自于同一个人。

My eulogies, too, may be founded on a postulate which all may not be ready to grant. Among the sayings and discourses imputed to Him by Hi biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others, again, of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanis丶m and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same Being.

在其传记作者所归于他的言论和布道中，我发现了充满美好想象、正确的道德和最可爱的仁慈的许多段落，但是我同样发现了那么多的无知，那么多的荒唐，那么多的虚假、蒙骗和欺诈，就象是宣布如此多的互相矛盾不可能来自于同一个人。

Beside him at all times in his struggle to reach the top - the office of Consul - was his confidential secretary, Tiro: the inventor of shorthand, and author of numerous books, including a famous life of Cicero, which was lost in the Dark Ages.

在那个时代，除了他之外，还有个努力想进入罗马执政界的人，就是他的秘密助手，Tiro：速记法的发明者，数不胜数的小说书的作者，包括其著名人物传记《 Cicero西塞罗的一生》，此书遗失于西罗马帝国灭亡时期。

Not very many exist. That's because the Soviet hagiographers for decades so carefully controlled the documentary record on him that they ensured a boring, sanitised view of the Great Leader that has virtually nothing honest to say – in Russian at least, and certainly not until after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

现存于世的这类书籍已所剩无几了，因为几十年来苏联的传记写手们是如此小心翼翼地控制有关列宁的档案文件，他们向世人构画了一个单调、一尘不染的最高领导人形象，至少在苏联倒台之前，在俄国国内是这样的，然而实际上他们的描述毫不可信。

Think of the magisterial, three-volume life of Robert Frost by Lawrence Thompson, for example, and how the biographer passed, over the many years of its making, from hero worship to intense dislike of the poet he shadowed for almost a quarter of a century.

例如，可参考劳伦斯汤普森编著的权威的，厚达三卷的罗伯特弗洛斯特的生平，并看看传记作者对诗人崇拜了近四分之一个世纪后，开始而后多年的创作，逐渐从英雄式的膜拜转为极端厌恶。

In their determination to read Dickinson's life in terms of a traditional romantic plot, biographers have missed the unique pattern of her life---her struggle to create a female life not yet imagined by the culture in which she lived.

他们决心在阅读传统的浪漫情节条款迪金森的生活，传记已经错过了她生活的独特模式---她的斗争，以创造一个女性的生活没有想象的文化，在她居住。

Her dieting and her visits to the gym were lifestyle options that were stereotypically American, her celebrated TV confession of adultery and her tell-all biography were also hallmarks of the American celebrated approach

她节食，经常去健身房，这些都是标准的美国生活方式。她著名的在电视上对不贞的坦承以及故意未经授权的大曝其光的传记都是美国名人的特点。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。