【沉闷午后无聊贴系列】林语堂先生译版美国《独立宣言》

iSnake

咱們國事亂到這般田地，叫咱們不得不跟（英國）皇上分家，自起爐灶，除了老天爺以外，誰也不要管誰，所以這會子總應向大家交個賬，說個明白，叫人家懂得這是怎麼一回事，別疑心了咱們是在做什麼坑崩拐騙蒙的好勾當。
　　咱們不會歪纏，就是這麼幾名話。一則，你我大家比起人家都是一只鼻子兩只眼楮，不認輸誰，說不定比人家還強的多著呢；二則，誰也別想貶卻咱們的身分資格；三則，一個人要怎麼活就可以怎麼活，要怎麼玩就可以怎麼玩，要到哪兒去就可以到哪兒去，只要不礙著旁人就得了。
　　什麼鳥ZF不放咱們這樣，便是王八蛋。
　　還有，老百姓要什麼ZF就可自己做主，不干人家的鳥事。什麼ZF不給咱們這樣就得滾他的蛋，再扶一個出來頂替。固然，象那些南美洲的傻子渾人，或者象什麼共產黨，天天革命，也不成個樣子。或者衙門里老爺一做岔了事便革一回命，也是不成的。有時候，老爺們吞款舞弊，作惡為非，咱們閉著眼兒裝不見，比起傻子渾人共產黨天天革命還好，你只要不是什麼無來由的，還能說聲不是嗎？但是國事混亂到這個分兒，一個人什麼身分兒都沒有了，任人當奴才看，到這會子，大家就得合攏來革那些狗官僚的命兒，另叫一班人來，給監視著，不讓他們大模大樣干他們偷雞的勾當。咱們十三州老百姓就是這麼一句話，罪受夠了，再混也混不下去。
當今皇上喬治登基以來，政事就是一團糟，誰不服氣來同他辦交涉，就是一把拳頭叫你吃，這還有什麼天理麼？咱們同算一下賬給你瞧。
咱們一體通過的條陳，他總批駁下來，咱們人人反對的條例，他倒給欽此了。
咱們有什麼呈文，非他親眼瞧過不成，呈文一上去，他卻向口袋里一放，裝著忘了，你同他提起，只給你一個不睬。
　　人家到宮里去呈請他立個新法，他就是這麼一套︰要末，把議會封起來，讓他稱孤道寡，孤行己意，不然，便是一個行，兩個不行。
　　他叫議會到那兒嶺外天邊三家村上去開會，樂得沒人肯去，讓他去一意橫行霸道。
議員去找他，說什麼好歹，他就是一溜不見，送他們回家。
議院封了，要叫開又不肯開，政事沒人管，成個無法無天的天下。
他哄人家不要來咱們十三州。誰要來，也不讓有報紙看，人家一看也不肯來了，就是來了，也不給田地，不得不回去，有的索性就不來。
　　他跟法官通同作弊，就不肯出錢多用幾個官吏，人家有案子，三年兩載還不見個動靜，不發下來，只好認倒霉空手回去。
　　法官有什麼不順從他的意旨，就得滾蛋，官俸又不發，叫他們先來孝敬老天爺，不然也別想拿一個大子。
高興起了，就添了什麼司什麼員，安排一些不見經傳的人小，錢向咱們老百姓腰包里拿，不管你情願不情願。
一個好好的太平天下，養了一大班丘八，驚擾百姓，咱們怎麼抗議也沒用。
他放著這些丘八作惡為非，橫行霸道，不掛腰刀的人只好听他們排比。
他放貪官污吏到處作孽，一朝權在手，無惡不作，干起以下的事來︰
　　叫一些毫無用處人人討厭的丘八駐扎民家里。
　　丘八殺人，便做個圈套，放他們逍遙法外。
　　管人家的事。
　　征苛捐雜稅，也不問一問咱們繳的稅項有個繳稅的道理沒有。
　　把人捉將官里去，人家要叫百姓陪審，不讓陪審。
　　把人無端趕出國外，事案是此地發的，叫人家到天邊海外去受審。
　　放幾個壞蛋充我們鄰國的官員，慢慢的擴展，希望有一天把咱們也吞下去，同他們一般腐敗。
　　把憲法當做把戲，人人說好沒人說壞的法律，他偏取消，讓他一人去瞎干。
　　他把議院關了門，就象他一個人獨干比別人干得好。
　　現在一不做二不休，索性跟咱們開戰，咱們還認什麼皇上，做什麼臣子？
　　他把城也燒了，人也殺了，比狗還不如，在海上還要興師問罪。
　　他雇些荷蘭雜種來打咱們，教他們只要打得過咱們，可以隨意搶掠，什麼萬國公法都不顧了。
　　咱們自己人在海上給他捉去，不管願意不願意，就迫著拿起槍把殺咱們同胞。
　　他唆使印第安生番，給他們槍火，教他們打死咱們的男女老少。
　　每回他這樣干，咱們就不服同他反抗，每回咱們不服同他反抗，他還是照舊這樣干下去。一個人老是這樣蠻橫不講理，還有什麼身分，就是不配來管咱們有身分人，應當滾蛋。
　　咱們向英國人講理，總是不得要領。差不多天天咱們忠告他們，他們那邊那些官僚違法越權，侵犯咱們。咱們老同他們講，咱們是誰，咱們在做什麼事，咱們為什麼過海而來。咱們同他們講公道，告訴他們，如果長此下去，咱們有一天要自己做自己打算，他們才知道利害。但是越和他們講理，越無理可講。可以見得他們不跟咱們一伙兒，就是同咱們為難，咱們就得同他們拚個高低，打完了再做道理。
　　因此，咱們決定，咱們代表十三州府的百姓在議會上議決︰咱們合眾國就是以前的十三州府，從此以後是自由國，照理就早該如此；咱們不認皇上，同他一刀兩斷，再也不听英國人的吩咐；咱們既然自由，自由國能干什麼咱們就能干什麼，尤重要的是宣戰、議和、營商等等。咱們拿聖經罰咒，大家一心一力，有首有尾，不顧利害，不論成敗，不計吉凶，就是財破人亡，到斷頭台上，還是這樣做去。

附英文原版：

The Declaration of Independence

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4,
1776 THE UNANIMOUS
DECLARATION OF THE
THIRTEEN UNITED
STATES OF AMERAICA

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws Nature and Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that they are among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among them, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than t right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity, which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is usurpations, all having in direct object tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.]
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasion on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolution, to cause others to be elected ; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without and convulsion within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws of naturalizing of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the condition of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent of laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their office, and the amount and payment of their salary.
He has erected a multitude of new officers, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out our substances.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation.
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us;
For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murder which they should commit on the inhabitants of these States.
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world;
For imposing taxes on us without our consent;
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury;
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses;
For abolishing the free systems of English laws in a neighboring Province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule these Colonies;
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments;
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely parallel in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrection amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petition have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpation, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them., as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled , appealing to the supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by authority of the good people of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United States Colonies and Independent States; that they are absolved by from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

Larkspur

哎呀呀,又来啦,学习一下.

jarodpeach

　在有关人类事务的发展过程中，当一个民族必须解除其和另一个民族之间的政治联系，并在世界各国之间依照自然法则和上帝的意旨，接受独立和平等的地位时，出于人类舆论的尊重，必须把他们不得不独立的原因予以宣布。
　　我们认为下面这些真理是不言而喻的：人人生而平等，造物者赋予他们若干不可剥夺的权利，其中包括生命权、自由权和追求幸福的权利。为了保障这些权利，人类才在他们之间建立ZF，而ZF之正当权力，是经被治理者的同意而产生的。当任何形式的ZF对这些目标具破坏作用时，人民便有权力改变或废除它，以建立一个新的ZF；其赖以奠基的原则，其组织权力的方式，务使人民认为唯有这样才最可能获得他们的安全和幸福。为了慎重起见，成立多年的ZF，是不应当由于轻微和短暂的原因而予以变更的。过去的一切经验也都说明，任何苦难，只要是尚能忍受，人类都宁愿容忍，而无意为了本身的权益便废除他们久已习惯了的ZF。但是，当追逐同一目标的一连串滥用职权和强取豪夺发生，证明ZF企图把人民置于专制统治之下时，那么人民就有权利，也有义务推翻这个ZF，并为他们未来的安全建立新的保障－－这就是这些殖民地过去逆来顺受的情况，也是它们现在不得不改变以前ZF制度的原因。当今大不列颠国王的历史，是接连不断的伤天害理和强取豪夺的历史，这些暴行的唯一目标，就是想在这些州建立专制的暴政。为了证明所言属实，现把下列事实向公正的世界宣布－－
　　他拒绝批准对公众利益最有益、最必要的法律。
　　他禁止他的总督们批准迫切而极为必要的法律，要不就把这些法律搁置起来暂不生效，等待他的同意；而一旦这些法律被搁置起来，他对它们就完全置之不理。
　　他拒绝批准便利广大地区人民的其它法律，除非那些人民情愿放弃自己在立法机关中的代表权；但这种权利对他们有无法估量的价值，而且只有暴君才畏惧这种权利。
　　他把各州立法团体召集到异乎寻常的、极为不便的、远离它们档案库的地方去开会，唯一的目的是使他们疲于奔命，不得不顺从他的意旨。
　　他一再解散各州的议会，因为它们以无畏的坚毅态度反对他侵犯人民的权利。
　　他在解散各州议会之后，又长期拒绝另选新议会；但立法权是无法取消的，因此这项权力仍由一般人民来行使。其实各州仍然处于危险的境地，既有外来侵略之患，又有发生内乱之忧。
　　他竭力抑制我们各州增加人口；为此目的，他阻挠外国人入籍法的通过，拒绝批准其它鼓励外国人移居各州的法律，并提高分配新土地的条件。
　　他拒绝批准建立司法权力的法律，藉以阻挠司法工作的推行。
　　他把法官的任期、薪金数额和支付，完全置于他个人意志的支配之下。
　　他建立新官署，派遣大批官员，骚扰我们人民，并耗尽人民必要的生活物质。
　　他在和平时期，未经我们的立法机关同意，就在我们中间维持常备军。
　　他力图使军队独立于民政之外，并凌驾于民政之上。
　　他同某些人勾结起来把我们置于一种不适合我们的体制且不为我们的法律所承认的管辖之下；他还批准那些人炮制的各种伪法案来达到以下目的：
　　在我们中间驻扎大批武装部队；
　　用假审讯来包庇他们，使他们杀害我们各州居民而仍然逍遥法外；
　　切断我们同世界各地的贸易；
　　未经我们同意便向我们强行征税；
　　在许多案件中剥夺我们享有陪审制的权益；
　　罗织罪名押送我们到海外去受审；
　　在一个邻省废除英国的自由法制，在那裹建立专制ZF，并扩大该省的疆界，企图把该省变成既是一个样板又是一个得心应手的工具，以便进而向这里的各殖民地推行同样的极权统治；
　　取消我们的宪章，废除我们最宝贵的法律，并且根本上改变我们各州ZF的形式；
　　中止我们自己的立法机关行使权力，宣称他们自己有权就一切事宜为我们制定法律。
　　他宣布我们已不属他保护之列，并对我们作战，从而放弃了在这里的政务。
　　他在我们的海域大肆掠夺，蹂躏我们沿海地区，焚烧我们的城镇，残害我们人民的生命。
　　他此时正在运送大批外国佣兵来完成屠杀、破坏和肆虐的勾当，这种勾当早就开始，其残酷卑劣甚至在最野蛮的时代都难以找到先例。他完全不配作为一个文明国家的元首。
　　他在公海上俘虏我们的同胞，强迫他们拿起武器来反对自己的国家，成为残杀自己亲人和朋友的刽子手，或是死于自己的亲人和朋友的手下。
　　他在我们中间煽动内乱，并且竭力挑唆那些残酷无情、没有开化的印第安人来杀掠我们边疆的居民；而众所周知，印第安人的作战规律是不分男女老幼，一律格杀勿论的。
　　在这些压迫的每一陷阶段中，我们都是用最谦卑的言辞请求改善；但屡次请求所得到的答复是屡次遭受损害。一个君主，当他的品格已打上了暴君行为的烙印时，是不配作自由人民的统治者的。
　　我们不是没有顾念我们英国的弟兄。我们时常提醒他们，他们的立法机关企图把无理的管辖权横加到我们的头上。我们也曾把我们移民来这里和在这里定居的情形告诉他们。我们曾经向他们天生的正义善感和雅量呼吁，我们恳求他们念在同种同宗的份上，弃绝这些掠夺行为，以免影响彼此的关系和往来。但是他们对于这种正义和血缘的呼声，也同样充耳不闻。因此，我们实在不得不宣布和他们脱离，并且以对待世界上其它民族一样的态度对待他们：和我们作战，就是敌人；和我们和好，就是朋友。
　　因此，我们，在大陆会议下集会的美利坚联盟代表，以各殖民地善良人民的名义，非经他们授权，向全世界最崇高的正义呼吁，说明我们的严正意向，同时郑重宣布；这些联合一致的殖民地从此是自由和独立的国家，并且按其权利也必须是自由和独立的国家，它们取消一切对英国王室效忠的义务，它们和大不列颠国家之间的一切政治关系从此全部断绝，而且必须断绝；作为自由独立的国家，它们完全有权宣战、缔和、结盟、通商和采取独立国家有权采取的一切行动。
　　为了支持这篇宣言，我们坚决信赖上帝的庇佑，以我们的生命、我们的财产和我们神圣的名誉，彼此宣誓。

火星总督

孩子大了闹分家

匆匆过客

奶奶熊的……

看得我眼都花了……

iSnake

都和你说了 平时多看书 少看杂志

那些都是图的东西是给没上学的孩子看的……

你都块上小学的人了

cenzhihui

还是简体看起来顺眼，繁体的眼都花了

lawbreaker

很有意思啊。