贪婪的人

Nowthere is much more to be said about the exceeding strange and wonderfulevents of those days; how some Suits of Microsoft plotted war upon thePenguin, but were discovered on a Halloween Eve; how Gates fell amonglawyers and was betrayed and crucified by his former friends, theapostles of Media; how the mercenary Knights of the Red Hat brought thegospel of the Penguin into the halls of the Corporations; and even ofthe dispute between the brethren of Gnome and KDE over a trollishLicence.

那时诞生了很多值得记录的佳音和咄咄怪事。比如：微软高层如何策动一场对企鹅进攻，却在万圣节前夜破产；盖茨如何陷入律师的困境同时被他过去的盟友—— Media 的使徒出卖并送上绞架；贪婪的 Red Hat 爵士如何将企鹅推进公司的深渊；以及 Gnome 和 KDE 如何手足相残。凡此种种都被记载在《圣经》的《企鹅之书》和《四代记》中。我想，如果将它们全部写下来，足够装满一堆 DVD 。如同 Usenet 新闻组一样深邃而危险。译注：1。 crucified ，指在十字街上钉死。是长时间以来深受欧洲人喜爱的死刑执行方法。

Partly it has great practical value – you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you – daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

一方面是由于它有着非常实际的使用价值——当你跳跃着穿越Jaglan Beta的冰冷的月亮中间时，可以把毛巾裹在身上用来取暖；在Santraginus V的灿烂的大理石沙子的海滩，你也可以躺在毛巾上，呼吸浓烈醉人的海洋蒸汽；也可以在Kakrafoon的沙漠世界里，在红色的恒星照耀下，盖着毛巾睡觉；用它做帆，在缓慢宽阔的Moth河上泛舟；在近身搏斗中打湿了做武器；包住脑袋来防止毒气侵袭或者避开Traal的贪婪虫鸣兽的喋喋不休（一种发自内心的愚蠢的动物，它总是认为如果你看不到它，它也就看不到你——蠢得像灌木，却很贪婪）；可以在紧急情况下挥动毛巾表示求救信号；当然，也可以用来擦干身体——如果它看起来还是足够干净的话。

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but for man's greed.

世间物资足以满足人的需要，却满足不了人的贪婪。

Corruption is biting into everyone's purse as petty officials, communist bureaucrats, soldiers and policemen, middlemen and hucksters greedily siphon off anything they can stuff into their own pockets. The protests that rocked the communist government in 1989 were in part fueled by popular resentment of endemic financial chicanery.

腐败者把手伸进了每个人的口袋，一些卑鄙的官员，共产党的官僚，士兵、中间商和小贩贪婪的把所有能攫取的东西都塞进了自己的口袋。1989年那次震动共产党政府的游行示威一部分原因就是公众对于地方的金融欺诈严重不满。

Perhaps our vast piles of junk can serve as visual metaphors for the difficult questions that we Americans face as the earth's most voracious resource gluttons.

也许垃圾问题是我们的巨大的痔，它呈现了一个视觉的隐喻——关于我们这些美国人面对的棘手问题——地球上最贪婪的资源吞噬者。译之匆匆，谨附原文

The heads and leaders of the Church, moved by avarice and insatiable desire of dominion, making use of the immoderate ambition of magistrates and the credulous superstition of the giddy multitude, have incensed and animated them against those that dissent from themselves, by preaching unto them, contrary to the laws of the Gospel and to the precepts of charity, that schismatics and heretics are to be outed of their possessions and destroyed.

教会的首领，被贪婪和不可满足的支配他人的欲望所驱使，利用法官的过度的雄心和辨别力不强的多数群众的易受骗的迷信心理，违背福音书律法和仁慈的训令，向他们讲道说宗教派别分立者和异端应当剥夺他们的财产并毁灭之，以此激怒和煽动他们反对与他们观点分歧的人。

Now there is much more to be said about the exceeding strange and wonderful events of those days; how some Suits of Microsoft plotted war upon the Penguin, but were discovered on a Halloween Eve; how Gates fell among lawyers and was betrayed and crucified by his former friends, the apostles of Media; how the mercenary Knights of the Red Hat brought the gospel of the Penguin into the halls of the Corporations; and even of the dispute between the brethren of Gnome and KDE over a trollish Licence.

那时诞生了很多值得记录的佳音和咄咄怪事。比如：微软高层如何策动一场对企鹅进攻，却在万圣节前夜破产；盖茨如何陷入律师的困境同时被他过去的盟友——Media的使徒出卖并送上绞架；贪婪的Red Hat爵士如何将企鹅推进公司的深渊；以及Gnome和KDE如何手足相残。凡此种种都被记载在《圣经》的《企鹅之书》和《四代记》中。我想，如果将它们全部写下来，足够装满一堆DVD。如同Usenet新闻组一样深邃而危险。1。 crucified，指在十字街上钉死。是长时间以来深受欧洲人喜爱的死刑执行方法。

Now there is much more to be said about the exceeding strange and wonderful events of those days; how some Suits of Microsoft plotted war upon the Penguin, but were discovered on a Halloween Eve; how Gates fell among lawyers and was betrayed and crucified by his former friends, the apostles of Media; how the mercenary Knights of the Red Hat brought the gospel of the Penguin into the halls of the Corporations; and even of the dispute between the brethren of Gnome and KDE over a trollish Licence.

那时诞生了很多值得记录的佳音和咄咄怪事。比如：微软如何通过套件策动一场对企鹅进攻，却在万圣节前夜破产；盖茨如何陷入律师的困境同时被他过去的盟友——Media的使徒出卖并送上绞架；贪婪的Red Hat爵士如何将企鹅推进公司的深渊；以及Gnome和KDE如何手足相残。凡此种种都被记载在《圣经》的《企鹅之书》和《四代记》中。我想，如果将它们全部写下来，足够装满一堆DVD。如同Usenet新闻组一样深邃而危险。译注：1。 crucified，指在十字街上钉死。是长时间以来深受欧洲人喜爱的死刑执行方法。

Now there is much more to be said about the exceeding strange and wonderful events of those days; how some Suits of Microsoft plotted war upon the Penguin, but were discovered on a Halloween Eve; how Gates fell among lawyers and was betrayed and crucified by his former friends, the apostles of Media; how the mercenary Knights of the Red Hat brought the gospel of the Penguin into the halls of the Corporations; and even of the dispute between the brethren of Gnome and KDE over a trollish Licence.

那时诞生了很多值得记录的佳音和咄咄怪事。比如：微软如何通过套件策动一场对企鹅进攻，却在万圣节前夜破产；盖茨如何陷入律师的困境同时被他过去的盟友——Media的使徒出卖并送上绞架；贪婪的Red Hat爵士如何将企鹅推进公司的深渊；以及Gnome和KDE如何手足相残。凡此种种都被记载在《圣经》的《企鹅之书》和《四代记》中。我想，如果将它们全部写下来，足够装满一堆DVD。如同Usenet新闻组一样深邃而危险。1。 crucified，指在十字街上钉死。是长时间以来深受欧洲人喜爱的死刑执行方法。

Now there is much more to be said about the exceeding strange and wonderful events of those days; how some Suits of Microsoft plotted war upon the Penguin, but were discovered on a Halloween Eve; how Gates fell among lawyers and was betrayed and crucified by his former friends, the apostles of Media; how the mercenary Knights of the Red Hat brought the gospel of the Penguin into the halls of the Corporations; and even of the dispute between the brethren of Gnome and KDE over a trollish Licence.

那时诞生了很多值得记录的佳音和咄咄怪事。比如：微软高层如何策动一场对企鹅进攻，却在万圣节前夜破产；盖茨如何陷入律师的困境同时被他过去的盟友—— Media 的使徒出卖并送上绞架；贪婪的 Red Hat 爵士如何将企鹅推进公司的深渊；以及 Gnome 和 KDE 如何手足相残。凡此种种都被记载在《圣经》的《企鹅之书》和《四代记》中。我想，如果将它们全部写下来，足够装满一堆 DVD 。如同 Usenet 新闻组一样深邃而危险。译注：1。 crucified ，指在十字街上钉死。是长时间以来深受欧洲人喜爱的死刑执行方法。

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