第十一章?
內(nèi)容提要：
新校長Ralston覺得Chips倚老賣老，不修邊幅，不聽指揮，想讓他退休。Chips很憤怒，可以話到嘴邊卻太激動竟然無言，他認(rèn)為Ralston太功利了，他把學(xué)校當(dāng)工廠，非但沒有把Brookfield變成真正的民主學(xué)校，還把他變成了只認(rèn)錢的學(xué)校。Ralston“欺負(fù)”Chips的過程正好被一個(gè)學(xué)生聽到傳了出去。大家都支持Chips，希望他能留下。而Ralston雖然大家對他敬畏，但是卻沒有喜愛，沒能得到人心。
語言點(diǎn)：
...he was efficient, ruthless, ambitious, but not, somehow, likeable. He had, admittedly, raised the status of Brookfield as a school, and for the first time in memory there was a longish waiting list. Ralston was a live wire; a fine power transmitter, but you had to beware of him.
這一段是描寫Ralston的，前面是用了幾個(gè)形容詞，?efficient, ruthless, ambitious, not likeable. 后面間接描通過Brookfield的變化（頭一次有了比較長的申請人名單）間接描。再后面用了比喻，live wire，本意是通電的電線，這里指Ralston精力充沛，在我們寫作中，可以用來替代vigorous這個(gè)詞；power transmitter，本意是“輸電器”，葛傳槼注釋說，指“有魄力的人”，這個(gè)比喻沒有g(shù)et到是怎么來的。
beware of 以前聽聽力的時(shí)候，誤聽為be aware of，這兩者相距甚遠(yuǎn)。beware是“小心提防”的意思。
注意這個(gè)詞的用法：“beware 現(xiàn)在只用在可用 be＋ware 的句子里。如可以說 I will beware 和 You need to beware，但不可說 I beware 或 You beware?？梢哉f Beware of thieves，但不可說 They beware of thieves。bewaring 和 bewared 都不該用。 ”
例：You should?beware?of bad companions; they may corrupt you. 當(dāng)心壞朋友，他們可能會毀了你。
longish，-ish這個(gè)后綴可以注意一下，表示“有點(diǎn)...的”
上周《經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人》騰訊那篇出現(xiàn)的newish= slightly new
再比如，reddish“有點(diǎn)紅的”
He felt himself sufficiently protected by age and seniority from the fate of other masters whom Ralston had failed to like.
sufficiently protected by age and seniority 倚老賣老
When he had just turned sixty, came Ralston's urbane ultimatum.
這句用的是個(gè)倒裝，相比正常語序，給我感覺有一層，”Ralston溫文有禮的最后通牒還是來了“的含義。
nevertheless= that being said?
Since you force me to use plain words, Mr. Chipping, you shall have them.?
plain跟前面的urbane形成反差。
這句讓我想起之前那個(gè)If he's looking for trouble, I should certainly let him have it. 都有種，“是你自找的，可不要怪我”的意味在里面。
Chips stared about him in that book-lined study, startled by the question, wondering why Ralston should have asked it.
book-lined 四周環(huán)書的，之前Justin講《經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人》里面有很多這種帶“-”的詞，可以使句子很簡潔。要不然還要拆出來一句說“the study is lined with books..."
should我們總是理解成“應(yīng)該”的意思，但是在這里，是"竟然"的意思
例：I find it astonishing that he should be so rude to you. 他竟然對你這樣無禮，真叫我吃驚??！
Abruptly Chips flamed up...
flame這個(gè)詞，名詞是“火焰”的意思，這里是東西，是個(gè)比較偏文學(xué)的詞，Chips“勃然大怒”。
Your methods of teaching are slack and old-fashioned; your personal habits are slovenly...
slack 本意是“松弛的”，這里的意思是“懈怠的，不用心的，敷衍了事的”
slacker “偷懶的人” 下文還有 slackness，可以放在一起記。
這個(gè)詞讓我聯(lián)想到騰訊那篇經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人里面lackadaisical這個(gè)詞， 楚汐講的這個(gè)詞的記法印象深刻lack-a-daisy(i)-cal ，跟slack意思相近，“懶洋洋的，無精打采的”
slovenly “邋遢的，衣冠不整的”，雖然是ly結(jié)尾，但是是形容詞。
Chips began, in sheer bewilderment, and then he took up isolated words out of that extraordinary indictment.
sheer這個(gè)詞很好用，也在“騰訊”那篇經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人里面出現(xiàn)來著，但是這個(gè)用法略不同。
“For sheer scale, WeChat seems likely to hold its own.”
之前讀 Shoe Dog的時(shí)候也遇到過，“the sheer volume of...”
這兩處是用來強(qiáng)調(diào)事物的大小程度或數(shù)量。本文里面是“十足的，純粹的”之意，翻譯成中文，要靈活一些。
例：I only agreed in sheer desperation. 我一時(shí)情急才同意的。
原文，葛傳槼先生的注釋我覺得翻譯得很好“全然愣住”，全然把sheer的意思體現(xiàn)了出來。
At last Chips had something tangible that he could tackle.
tangible “有形的，實(shí)際的，可感知的”
tackle= to deal with sth difficult.?
And suddenly in a torrent of thoughts too pressing to be put into words, Chips made answer to himself.
a torrent of thoughts, sweep,可以放在一起記，洶涌的想法襲來
... but instead of widening them to form a genuine inclusive democracy of duke and dustman, Ralston was narrowing them to upon the single issue of a fat banking account.
wide和narrow兩個(gè)常見的形容詞，這里用作動詞。
duke and dustman 押頭韻(alliteration)，公爵和清潔工，借代，指代貴族和平民。
president and plumber、minister and manufacturer
Ralston met these wealthy fellows in London clubs and persuaded them that Brookfield was the coming school, and since they couldn't buy their way into Eton or Harrow, the greedily swallowed the bait.?
buy their way into 指花錢進(jìn)入后面兩個(gè)學(xué)校上學(xué)，很簡單的表達(dá)，但是看到中文，不會想到去這樣翻譯成英文
“這些人無法憑借金錢進(jìn)入伊頓和哈羅”?
They couldn't enter?Eton or Harrow by donating them money. 感覺一下好low哈哈哈！
swallow the bait 吃鉤上鉤
the Govenors are with you to a man.
to a man 一致，毫無例外
例：They answered 'Yes,' to a man.
but a chap like that wants watching.
好像很久之前老師講過這個(gè)，want和need等詞后，用主動式動名詞，表示被動含義。不過很久沒遇到了~鞏固一下。
And at that -- both then and often when he recounted it afterwards -- Chips broke down.
Chips broke down at that（指前面Sir John說的那番話）
break down= to lose control of your feelings and start crying?
break down and cry/weep，break down into tears
語音點(diǎn)：
row當(dāng)吵架講的時(shí)候，不讀/r??/而是讀/ra?/。類似的還有bow這個(gè)詞，當(dāng)鞠躬講是讀/ba?/，當(dāng)弓箭講讀/b??/
status 英音多讀/e?/，美式很多人會發(fā)/?/
ultimatum /??lt??me?t?m/?這個(gè)詞的重音需要注意一下，不能想當(dāng)然把重音放在最前面。
urbane注意不能跟urban混了
passionate?/?p???n?t/ 后面的元音注意不要讀成/e?/
transmitter?/tr?nz?m?t?/?/tr?ns?m?t?(r)/ s讀清音濁音都可以，但是注意重音的位置在后面。
indictment /?n?da?tm?nt/，注意元音，注意字母c不發(fā)音
acre/?e?k?/ 英畝，我總以為最后沒有元音讀成/e?k/
