《安娜·卡列尼娜》摘录(3)
In the little German watering-place to which the Shtcherbatskys had betaken themselves, as in all places indeed where people are gathered together, the usual process, as itwere, of the crystallization of society went on, assigning to each member ofthat society a definite and unalterable place. Just as the particle of water infrost, definitely and unalterably, takes the special form of the crystal ofsnow, so each new person that arrived at the springs was at once placed in hisspecial place.
He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizingin it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.
He experienced the sensations of a man who has had a tooth out after suffering long from toothache.
关于孩子和虚伪的大人
The children knew Levin very little, and could not remember when they had seen him, but they experienced in regard to him none of that strange feeling of shyness and hostility which children so often experience towards hypocritical, grown-uppeople, and for which they are so often and miserably punished.
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.