秉性

I know the value of these things, for I know human nature.

我知道这一切的价值，因为我知道人的秉性。

But there are many people struggling with life, not to change maverick mettle and frankness.

但也有不少人一生挣扎，仍不改特立独行的秉性与率真。

So, you want to see a man's mettle.

所以，你要看一个男人的秉性。

Everyone has their own unique mettle and talent.

每个人都有自己独特的秉性和天赋。

There was no other attribute that so much impressed her with a sense of new and untransmitted vigour in Pearl's nature, as this never-failing vivacity of spirits; she had not the disease of sadness, which almost all children, in these latter days, inherit, with the scrofula, from the troubles of their ancestors.

在珠儿的秉性中，这种永不衰竭的精神活力带有一种蕴含着的崭新精力的感觉，给她的印象最为深刻；珠儿没有忧郁症--如今几乎所有的孩子都从他们先辈的烦恼中，把这种症状同瘟病一起继承了下来。

There was no other attri but e that so much impressed her with a sense of new and untransmitted vigour in Pearl's nature, as this never-failing vivacity of spirits; she had not the disease of sadness, which almost all children, in these latter days, inherit, with the scrofula, from the troubles of their ancestors.

在珠儿的秉性中，这种永不衰竭的精神活力带有一种蕴含着的崭新精力的感觉，给她的印象最为深刻；珠儿没有忧郁症--如今几乎所有的孩子都从他们先辈的烦恼中，把这种症状同瘟病一起继承了下来。

The Northumbrian people, generally, exhibit many striking and characteristic qualities, inherited most probably from the hardy and energetic Northmen who settled in such numbers along the north-eastern coasts many centuries ago.

一般说来，诺森伯兰郡人具有很多引人注目的、独具特色的品德，他们很可能继承了几百年前大量定居在英国东北沿岸的艰苦、彪悍的北方人秉性。

In the same way, the reason why the British politicians now in England find it difficult to govern Ireland and India, is because modern Englishmen today do not know that it was not British democracy, the British Constitution or Parliamentarism, but the British or English civilization with the "gentleman" and its ideal; in short, that it was not the British mob, but the British or English gentleman who built up the great British Empire of today. But that is neither here nor there.

同样，不列颠"无名战士"，新近葬入英国西敏寺，驱走恶魔，封建德国狂怒之条顿人，目今英国之不列颠政客，之所以觉爱尔兰及印度难治者，盖因今日现代英国人不知，今日大不列颠帝国之所以成者，既非不列颠之民主、亦非不列颠之政体或议会制度，而乃不列颠或英格兰文明蕴有"温良"及其理想之故也；简言之，今日大不列颠帝国之所以成者，非不列颠群氓之功，而乃不列颠或英格兰温良秉性之士之功也。

But let us come to Commodus, to whom it should have been very easy to hold the empire, for, being the son of Marcus, he had inherited it, and he had only to follow in the footsteps of his father to please his people and soldiers; but, being by nature cruel and brutal, he gave himself up to amusing the soldiers and corrupting them, so that he might indulge his rapacity upon the people; on the other hand, not maintaining his dignity, often descending to the theatre to compete with gladiators, and doing other vile things, little worthy of the imperial majesty, he fell into contempt with the soldiers, and being hated by one party and despised by the other, he was conspired against and was killed.

但 是，让我们谈谈科姆莫多吧，因为他是以马尔科的太子身份根据继承权而享有帝位的，他只要踏着他父亲的足迹前进，使人民和士兵满意，他就能够容易不过地保有这个帝国。可是，由于他秉性残忍和野蛮，为了自己能够鱼肉人民，他要买好军人，让他们放纵不羁；另一方面，他没有保持自己的尊严，常常走到竞技场同搏斗者格斗，并且做出其他卑鄙的、同皇帝的尊严极不相称的事情，因此，他受到士兵轻视。由于一方面憎恨他，而另一方面蔑视他，于是人们合谋反对他，并且终于把他杀害了。

He was a New England seer and seeker , both an accepter and a renouncer, a quiet man and a busy man, who liked 'dry light, and hard clouds, hard expressions, and hard manners'.

他是新英格兰的先知，又是探索者，既接受，又扬弃，秉性娴静而又终日碌碌，喜欢"古板严肃，正言厉色。"

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。