勃特勒

像很多人一样（比如E.M.福斯特），艾伦读塞缪尔.勃特勒的《埃万共和国》，得到了很多乐趣。

Like many people ( E.M.Forster among them ) he found a special pleasure in discovering Samuel Butler 's Erewhon .

正如勃特勒所说，心灵与整个宇宙有别。

As Butler put it , it ' banishes Mind from the universe . '

艾伦也非常欣赏勃特勒的继承人萧伯纳，欣赏他富有深刻内涵的娱乐剧。

Alan also much admired Butler 's successor Bernard Shaw , enjoying his light play with serious ideas .

在这方面，国王学院很是独特，在这里，可以怀疑一个肖伯纳认为不是问题，而勃特勒则一笔代过的问题。

Here it was possible to doubt an axiom which Shaw left unquestioned and Butler skated over nervously .

要从事伟大的工作，一个人必须既非常勤劳又非常空闲。（美国教育家勃特勒.S。）

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious . ( Samuel Bubler , American educator )

每个人的工作，不管是文学、音乐、美术、建筑还是其他工作，都是自己的一幅画像。（美国教育家勃特勒.S.）

Every man 's work , whether it be literature of music of pictures or architecture of anything else , is always a portrait of himself .

另外还有一个不同，维多利亚时代的人，比如勃特勒、萧伯纳和卡本特，他们讨论的是人的灵魂和精神，

There was another difference . Victorians like Butler , Shaw and Carpenter had concerned themselves with identifying a soul , a spirit or life force .

世人莫不怀着一种与生俱来的欲望，要把支出超过收入，此乃一切进步的动力。（英国作家勃特勒）

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income . ( Samuel Butler , British writer )

对于30年代见过世面的人们来说，勃特勒和萧伯纳已经是老朽的经典，但对于一个刚从舍尔伯尼走出来的人来说，他们拥有一种解放的魔力。

For the well-read sophisticate of the 1930s , Butler and Shaw were already out-worn classics , but for one from Sherborne School they still held a liberating magic .