见信如晤Letters Live 第14期:'露易丝布瑞莉'读信:女性不应该被完全废除吗(1)

 　　March 30th, 1912

　　1912年3月30日

　　To the Editor of The Times.

　　致泰晤士报的编辑

　　Sir, After reading Sir Almroth Wright's able and weighty exposition of women as he knows them, the question seems no longer to be "Should women have votes?" but "Ought women not to be abolished altogether?"

　　先生，在读过阿尔姆罗思·怀特对于女性的重要阐述后，现在的问题似乎不再是“女性应该有投票权吗？”， 而是“女性不应该被完全废除吗？”

　　I have been so much impressed by Sir Almroth Wright's disquisition, backed as it is by so much scientific and personal experience, that I have come to the conclusion that women should be put a stop to.

　　阿尔姆罗思先生的论述由那么多科学依据和个人经验所支持，这让我印象深刻。我由此得出结论，女性应该停止繁衍。

　　We learn from him that in their youth they are unbalanced, that from time to time they suffer from unreasonableness¹ and hypersensitiveness, and that their presence is distracting and irritating to men in their daily lives and pursuits.

　　从他的文字中我们可以学到，女性在青年时期就是发展不平衡的，她们时不时的会有不合理或者神经过敏的行为。她们的存在会激怒男性，使他们在日常生活和人生追求中分心。

　　If they take up a profession, the indelicacy of their minds makes them undesirable² partners for their male colleagues.

　　如果她们从事某个职业，她们头脑的不协调性会让男性同事不愿意和她们共事。

1 unreasonableness   

无理性； 横逆

参考例句：

• Figure out the unreasonableness and extend the recommendation of improvement. 对发现的不合理性，提供改进建议。
• I'd ignore every one of them now, embrace every quirk or unreasonableness to have him back. 现在，对这些事情，我情愿都视而不见，情愿接受他的每一个借口或由着他不讲道理，只要他能回来。

2 undesirable   

adj.不受欢迎的，不良的，不合意的，讨厌的；n.不受欢迎的人，不良分子

参考例句：

• They are the undesirable elements among the employees.他们是雇员中的不良分子。
• Certain chemicals can induce undesirable changes in the nervous system.有些化学物质能在神经系统中引起不良变化。