潦倒

Over the last thirty years, Malaysia has enjoyed tremendous economic growth becoming one of the richest Countries in South Eastern Asia, nonetheless, it has remained the land of opposites: tradition cohabits with modern times, disparaging wealth distribution is severe, and the few rich, are outweighed by thousands of fishermen and poverty-stricken farm workers; modern buildings and futuristic looking skyscrapers seem to overwhelm mud-huts and houses built on stilts, all this, on a backdrop of thick jungle of Salgarian fame and the sea's typical colour of emerald green.

在过去的三十年里，马来西亚经历了巨大的经济进步，成为东南亚最富有的国家之一。然而，这片土地本身依旧保持着一种相反的状态：现代社会的传统混居，严重的财富等级分化，极少部分人很富裕而同时又存在着上千的渔民和穷困潦倒的农民，现代化建筑和未来风格的摩天大厦和茅草屋及高脚屋形成鲜明对比。所有的这些，都是以 Salgarian 的茂密丛林为背景，在这里，海洋典型的颜色是墨绿色，如翡翠一般。

They are in their homes. They are not displaced, but they are poor.

他们在自己的家中，没有流离失所，但是穷困潦倒。

One story tells how St. Nicholas gave money for the three daughters of an impoverished nobleman to buy their dowries.

其中有一个故事说的是圣·尼克拉斯怎样把钱给一家穷困潦倒贵族的3个姑娘去买嫁妆。

He also empathized with Mozart's ability to continue to compose magnificent music even in very difficult and impoverished conditions. In 1905, the year he discovered relativity, Einstein was living in a cramped apartment and dealing with a difficult marriage and money troubles.

爱因斯坦很认同莫扎特即使在非常困难或穷困潦倒的情况依然可以继续创作的能力。1905年，即他提出相对论的那年，爱因斯坦住在一间狭窄不堪的公寓里，忙着应付难以为继的婚姻和财产所带来的诸多问题。

Men in women's clothes, women in male attire, children disguised in beggars' rags: there were some of all sorts: ci-devant counts, marquises, even dukes, who wanted to fly from France, reach England or some other equally accursed country, and there try to rouse foreign feeling against the glorious Revolution, or to raise an army in order to liberate the wretched prisoners in the Temple, who had once called themselves sovereigns of France.

男的就换上女人的衣服，女的就穿上男人的衣裳，孩子就伪装成衣衫褴褛的乞丐：各个等级都有人伪装：前伯爵，前侯爵，甚至前公爵，他们都想要从法兰西逃到英格兰或是其他一样受法国人民憎恶的国家，在那里他们会尽力挑起外国对本国荣耀的大革命的不满情绪，或是召集一支军队解放特姆普尔潦倒沮丧的囚犯，这些囚犯过去称自己是法兰西的统治者。

Pain. The pain of life, it was often played the role of uninvited guest, often uninvited to some pain to the gentle, as long coming of dusk, be unaware that you will feel the cold and dark; some pain come suddenly, as burst of showers, burst Roughs, let us Lai Buji prevention; when we succumb to the pain, he may make us depressed, down and out, even in despair die out.

承受痛苦。痛苦就人生而言，常常扮演着不速之客的角色，往往不请自到，有些痛苦来的温柔，如同漫漫降临的黄昏，在不知不觉间你会感到冰冷和黑暗；有些痛苦来的突然，如同一阵骤雨、一阵怒涛，让我们来不急防范；当我们屈服于痛苦的时候，他可能使我们沮丧、潦倒，甚至在绝望中走向灭亡。

Pain. The pain of life, it was often played a role in uninvited guest, often uninvited to some pain to the gentle, as long coming of dusk, be unaware that you will feel the cold and dark; some pain come suddenly, as burst of showers, burst Roughs, let us Lai Buji prevention; when we succumb to the pain, he may make us depressed, down and out, even in despair die out.

承受痛苦。痛苦就人生而言，常常扮演着不速之客的角色，往往不请自到，有些痛苦来的温柔，如同漫漫降临的黄昏，在不知不觉间你会感到冰冷和黑暗；有些痛苦来的突然，如同一阵骤雨、一阵怒涛，让我们来不急防范；当我们屈服于痛苦的时候，他可能使我们沮丧、潦倒，甚至在绝望中走向灭亡。

Many a dunhad she talked to, and turned away from her fathers door; many a tradesmanhad she coaxed and wheedled into good humour, ands into thegranting of one meal more....

蓓基。夏泼是萨克雷塑造的西方维多利亚时代的人物，她的父亲是一个穷困潦倒的画师，母亲是一个会讲法语的流浪舞女。

The latter has the surface of civilization, the conflicts of crowns, the births of princes, the marriages of kings, battles, assemblages, great public men, revolutions in the daylight, everything on the exterior; the other historian has the interior, the depths, the people who toil, suffer, wait, the oppressed woman,the agonizing child, the secret war between man and man, obscure ferocities, prejudices, plotted iniquities, the subterranean, the indistinct tremors of multitudes, the die-of-hunger, the counter-blows of the law, the secret evolution of souls, the go-bare-foot, the bare-armed, the disinherited, the orphans, the unhappy, and the infamous, all the forms which roam through the darkness.

后者所研究的是文明的表层、王冠的争夺、王子的出生、国君的婚姻、战争、会议、著名的大人物、阳光下的兴衰变革，一切外表的东西；而另一种历史学家研究的是内容、实质、劳动、苦难、期待着的人民、被压迫的妇女、呻吟中的儿童、人与人的暗斗、隐秘的暴行、成见、公开的不平等待遇、法律的暗中反击、心灵的秘密演变、群众的隐微震颤、饿到快死的人、赤脚露臂的无依靠的人、孤儿孤女、穷愁潦倒蒙羞受辱的人和在黑暗中流浪的一切游魂野鬼。

And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairy-land is before us——then the wayfarer hastens home; the working man and the cultured one, the wise man and the one of pleasure, cease to understand, as they have ceased to see, and Nature, who, for once, has sung in tune, sings her exquisite song to the artist alone, her son and her master——her son in that he loves her, her master in that he knows her.

当夜幕为河滨蒙上一层诗意般的薄雾之时，潦倒的建筑在昏暗的天穹下像被什么东西盖住一样看不见了，高耸的烟囱变得像一座钟楼一般，仓库在黑夜中看起来像座雄伟的宫殿，整座城市悬挂在天空中，给人如置身仙境般的感觉。旅人加快了归家的步伐；忙于工作的人，聪慧和有学识的人还有快乐的人们理解不了其中的奥秘，因为他们从没用心眼去观察过自然界。而自然只曾为孤独的艺术家——她的儿子，那个大师高歌一曲，因为只有艺术家爱着她，深深了解她。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失