暴行

IT IS too late to warn of a civilian slaughter in north-eastern Sri Lanka. The "bloodbath has become a reality," said the UN's spokesman in Colombo on May 11th, as news of the latest atrocity emerged from the crowded beach where the army and Tamil Tiger rebels are fighting their last battle. On May 9th and 10th 480 civilian refugees are reported to have been brought dead or dying to a makeshift hospital in the war-zone, victims of shellfire.

如今再为斯里兰卡东北部的平民屠杀发出警报为时已晚。5月11日联合国发言人在科伦坡说："血腥屠戮已成现实"，此时有关最新暴行的新闻正从拥挤的海滩上不断传来，而政府军与泰米尔猛虎反叛分子正在那里进行最后的搏杀。5月9日与10日，有480名已死或将死的难民被送往战区的一个临时医院，成为炮火的牺牲品。

For much of the past decade, in both Britain and America, liberal lawyers, civil- liberties lobbies and campaigning journalists have been sounding the alarm. But a certain shrillness of tone and an unwillingness to take sufficiently seriously the ever-present danger of terrorist atrocities of appalling brutality has lessened their impact.

在过去十年间的大部分时间里，自由派律师、公民自由游说者以及从事社会运动的记者都在英美两国发出这一警报；但其措辞刺耳尖厉，又不愿对始终存在的、残忍程度骇人听闻的恐怖主义暴行给予充分严肃的对待，因此他们的影响力被打上了折扣。

"To dislodge the worship of the west that had helped foment much of the unrest leading up to 1989, successive patriotic education campaigns waged in textbooks, newspapers, films and monuments drew concerted attention to China's century of humiliation (c. 1840-1949) inflicted by foreign imperialism, always beginning with the opium wars, always passing slickly over the CCP's own acts of violence."

"为了消除对西方的崇拜--在导致1989年事件的动荡中，这起到了主要的推波助澜作用--政府接连发起的爱国主义教育运动，通过课本、报章、电影和纪念馆，把人们的注意力集中转向帝国主义给中国带来的百年屈辱(1840年-1949年)--他们总是从鸦片战争说起，也总是轻巧地跳过中国共产党自己的暴行。"

Auschwitz is synecdoche for the catalogue of modern atrocities.

奥斯维辛集中营是现代暴行的提喻。

In some places, mobs tarred and feathered those who violated the

完全抵制。在某些地方，群众对那些违反抵制行动的人施以浇柏油黏羽毛的暴行。

The problem is most acute in the five or six oil-rich Delta states. There the local elections on April 14th were replaced by something more like organised thuggery, with PDP gunmen beating up opponents, intimidating voters, snatching ballot boxes and stuffing them with pre-marked ballots.

而在富油三角洲地区的五六个州，问题更加尖锐。4月14号在那些地方举行的地方选举，被更像是有组织的暴行代替——人民民主党枪手殴打对手党人，恐吓选民，抢抓投票箱，然后将事先写好的选票快速塞入其中。

Aouda was thunderstruck at the suddenness of an event which she could not understand.

这件突如其来的暴行把艾娥达给吓怔了，她莫名其妙，一点也不明白是怎么回事。

The truth is you're the weak, and I'm the tyranny of evil man.

真理是，你是弱者，而我是邪恶的人的暴行。

The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men.

那真理是：你是弱者，而我，是邪恶的人的暴行。

Here there is one thing we shall be the last to deny: he who knows these "good men" only as enemies knows only evil enemies, and the same men who are held so sternly in check inter pares by custom, respect, usage, gratitude, and even more by mutual suspicion and jealousy, and who on the other hand in their relations with one another show themselves so resourceful in consideration, self-control, delicacy, loyalty, pride, and friendship—once they go outside, where the strange, the stranger is found, they are not much better than uncaged beasts of prey. There they savor a freedom from all social constraints, they compensate themselves in the wilderness for the tension engendered by protracted confinement and enclosure within the peace of society, they go back to the innocent conscience of the beast of prey, as triumphant monsters who perhaps emerge from a disgusting procession of murder, arson, rape, and torture, exhilarated and undisturbed of soul, as if it were no more than a student's prank, convinced they have provided the poets with a lot more material for song and praise.

同样是这种人，他们被如此严格地束缚在习俗、敬仰、礼节、感戴之中，甚至被束缚在相互监视、彼此嫉妒之中，他们在相互态度的另一方面却显示出如此善于思考，善于自我克制，如此温柔、忠诚、自豪、友好；一旦来到外界，接触到各种陌生事物，他们比脱笼的野兽好不了多少，他们摆脱了所有社会的禁锢，享受着自由，他们在野蛮状态中弥补着在和睦的团体生活中形成的长期禁锢和封闭所带来的紧张心理，他们返回到了野兽良心的无辜中，变成幸灾乐祸的猛兽，他们在进行了屠杀、纵火、强暴、殴打等一系列可憎的暴行之后也许会大摇大摆、心安理得地离去，仿佛只是完成了一场学生式的恶作剧，他们也许还相信，在很长一段时间内诗人们又有值得歌咏和颂扬的素材了。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。