Katherine's Wonderland 9 --- Tranquility

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Tranquility

平静

作者：夏洛蒂·勃朗特

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

说人类应当满足平静的生活，这是徒劳无益的。他们应当有所行动，而且要是她们没有办法找到，那就自己来创造。

Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are silent revolt against their lot.

成千上万的人命里注定要承受比我更为沉寂的灭亡；而成千上万的人在默默地反抗他们的命运。

Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth.

没有人知道出来政治反抗以外，有多少反抗在人世间默默地酝酿着。

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do.

一般都认为女人应该平平静静，但女人和男人有一样的感觉。她们需要发挥自己的才能，而且她们也和自己的兄弟们一样需要有用武之地。

They suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer, and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing piano and embroidering bags.

她们对严厉的束缚、绝对的停滞，都和男人一样感到痛苦，比她们更享有特权的人们中，只有那些心胸狭窄者才会说，女人们应该就只打打补丁，织织长袜，弹弹钢琴，绣绣布包。

It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.

要是她们希望超脱世俗认定的女性所应守的规范，做更多的事情，学更多的东西，那么为此去谴责或者讥笑她们未免是轻率的。