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Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: XI
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Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

 
 
 
 
"Conservatrix of Milesien"
Habits of mind and feeling, 185 (184-185)
Possibly. But in Ealing
With the most bank-clerkly of Englishmen? (186-187)
   
No,"Milesien"is an exaggeration.  
No instinct has survived in her
Older than those her grandmother 190
Told her would fit her station. (189-191)
 
   
 
 
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本節描述受過教育的中產階級婦女(與上節177行的「溫馴且未受教育的青婦」形成對比),繼承了她並不瞭解且已僵化了的傳統。完全按照其規定的習慣生活,徹頭徹尾扼殺了自己的本能。[back]
184
Conservatrix:(法文)very conservative woman or conservator. Milesien:非常古老的(由Miletus一字轉來。Miletus為古愛奧尼亞十二城市中最重要亦係最古老者,考古家發現在古代該城曾有高度文化。)[back]
184-185
一位非常保守的女士,心智與感情方面的習慣都非常古舊。[back]
186
Ealing:倫敦之一區,為上流階級位宅區。[back]
187
Most bank-clerkly:最像銀行辦事員的。[back]
186-187
But . . . Englishmen:但是,在Ealing,卻和最世俗的英國人廝混。[back]
190
those: those habits.[back]
191
station:social position, status.社會地位。[back]
189-191
No instinct that survived in her which is older than those habits which, her grandmother told her, would fir her station.這是按照文法構造的形式。[back]
 
   
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