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2021年1月14日发(作者：赵昆)
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The English humour英国人的幽默

Fun seems to be the possession of the English is
JohnBulll's idea of humour，and there is no
intellectualjudgment in ody understands it be-cause
it is than that，it unites allclasses and
sweetens even political studythe elemental form of
English humour，you must look to the begins
with the practical joke，and unless there is something of his
natureabout it，it is never humour to an
English household，fun is going all the entire house
resounds witn father comes home and the whole family
contribute to theamusement;puns，humorous uses of words，
little things that are meaningless nonsense，if you like，fly
round，and every one enjoys them thoroughly for just what
they Scotch are devoid ofthis trait，and the
Americans seem to be，too.

逗乐儿似乎是英国人的 秉性，是典型的英国人所说的幽默，不需
区分智力高下。它切合实际，人人都懂。不但如此，它把各阶层 人士
联系在一起，甚至还使政治生活变得盎然有趣。要研究英国幽默的基
础形式，你必须观察其 教科书。教科书都是以切合实际的玩笑开头，
如果这个玩笑无关于英国人本性，在英国人看来，就无幽默 可言。在
一个英国家庭里，逗乐儿无时不在实行，整幢屋子其乐融融。父亲回
家了，全家人各显 其能，津津乐道;双关语、俏皮话、大实话、空话废
话满天飞，人人尽情享受。苏格兰人没有这种性格， 美国人恐怕也没
有。

If I had the power to give humour to the na-tions I would
not give them drollery，for that isimpractical;I would not
give them wit，for that isaristocratic，and many minds cannot
grasp it;but Iwould be contented to deal out fun，which has
nointellectual element，no subtlety，belongs to oldand young，
educated and uneducated alike，and isthe natural form of the
humour of the Englishman.

如果我有权给予此民族幽默的特质，那么我就不给予他们诙谐的
本领，因为那不切实际;我也不给予他们风趣的风格，因为那过于贵族
派头，以致多数人无法理 解;我要心满意足地给予他们逗乐儿的本事，
即不分智力高下，没有隐晦曲折，无论老少或受教育与否都 能享受的
英国式的自然幽默。

Let me tell you why the Englishman speaksonly one
believes with the strongest conviction that his
own tongue is the one that allpeople ought to speak and will
come in time tospeak，so what is the use of learning any
other?Hebelieves s，too，that he is appointed by Providenceto
be a governor of all the rest of the human our
Scottish standpoint we can never see anEnglishman without
thinking that there is oozing from every pore of his body the
conviction that he belongs to a governing has not
been his de-sire that large portions of the world should be
un-der his care，but as they have been thrust uponhim in the
proceedings of a wise Providence，hemust discharge his
theory hasn't en-deared him to others of his kind，
but that isn't amatter that concerns doesn't learn
anyother language because he knows that he couldspeak it only
so imperfectly that other people would laugh at him，and it
would never do that aperson of his importance in the scheme
of the uni-verse should be made the object of ridicule.

让 我告诉诸位为什么英国人只讲一种语言。因为英国人坚信，英
语是各国人民都应该讲、而且迟早都会讲的 语言，所以，学其他语言
有什么用?他还认为，上帝已委派他成为全人类的主宰。从苏格兰人的
立场来看，英国人每一个毛孔都散发着他是属于统治民族的信念。他
虽然不想杷各国人民置于自己的监护 之下，但是，既然贤明的上帝让
他这样做，他就必须尽到责任。这种理论没有使他对其他人、包括对和他一样的人变得亲切可爱，但那不关他的事。他之所以不学其他语
言，因为他知道自己说得很糟， 唯恐别人耻笑，而像他那样重要的人
是万万不能成为别人的笑柄的。