【正文】 it was monly thought that to love oneself, everyone should first give up his guilt. 其實以前就有個比較流行的看法，認(rèn)為欲愛己需先消滅內(nèi)疚感。 7. People all around us spent a great portion of the last decade trying to tune out guilt instead of decoding its message and learning what it was trying to tell us. () For the most part of the past ten years, people deliberately ignore the sense of guilt without understanding its meaning and significance. 我們周圍的人過去十年大部分時間一直想把內(nèi)疚感拋在腦后，而不去探究內(nèi)疚的含意，不去從中悟出些什么。 8. With that sort of success, guilt was ripe for revival. () When guilt is successfully eliminated, it’s also the time for it to be brought back. 9. Furthermore, we did not want to join the legions who conquered their guilt en route to new depths of narcissistic rottenness. () What’s more, we would never be one of those who give up their guilt while being more and more deteriorated in their excessive admiration of themselves. 再說了，有很多征服內(nèi)疚感的人在自我陶醉的深淵中越陷越深，我們是不愿與之為伍的。 10. It is, as Lady Macbeth obsessively knew, the spot that no one else may see. () In Macbeth, the famous Shakespeare tragedy, Lady Macbeth killed the King Duncan and always had the idea that there were blood spot in her hands. 11. The last thing we need more of is less conscience. () 我們什么不要都可以，唯獨不能不要良知。 We should by no means abandon conscience. last likely or expected . He is the last person we would have suspected. 我們是絕不會懷疑他的。 12. As regards conscience, God has done an uneven and careless piece of work. () In the aspect of conscience, not everyone has been given the same amount of it when being born as if God is careless and unfair. as regards to 在?方面 13. there has to be some line between... () there should be some difference between； we should separate...from... 14. the oppressed have “chosen” their lot in life. () The people who suffer in their life are determined to be so at the very beginning. 15. those who offer no guidance, no—gulp—moral or ethical point of view. () gulp v. to choke back by or as if by swallowing Here the author is choked as if the following words are difficult to utter. 16. feel guilty just for being alive () feel guilty only because they are alive； feel guilty for nothing 17. the trick isn’t to bee flaccidly nonjudgmental () The important thing we should do is not to be afraid of making judgment. 18． ...nothing else but trouble arising in our mind from our consciousness of having done contrary to what we are verily persuaded was our Duty. () ... simply the disfort appearing in our inner heart when we have done something that is not right according our responsibility 19. We are also particularly vulnerable to feelings of duty in a time of change. Today an older and ingrained sense of what we should do may conflict with a new one. In the gaps that open between what we once were taught and what we now believe grows a rich crop of guilt. () In such a changeable world, our sense of duty is very likely to change our feeling. Now old concept may conflict with the new one on what we should do. There is great difference between our belief and the education we got, and that difference results in the sense of guilt. 在這個瞬息萬變的時代我們固有的責(zé)任感格 外容易被推翻。什么該做什么不該做，今天一個新觀念就可能和根深蒂固的老觀念相沖突。過去所受的教育和今天的認(rèn)識之間有很大差距，由此也生出各種內(nèi)疚感。 20. If guilt is a struggle between our acceptance of shoulds and should nots, it is a powerful and intensely human one. () If guilt represents the contradiction of our standard of behaviors, it is a good thing full of strength and humanness. 如果說責(zé)任感是我們接受什么該做、什么不該做之間的斗爭，這個斗爭是強大的、充滿人性的斗爭。 21. This worst emotion, in a sense, helps bring out the best in us. The desire to avoid feeling guilty makes us avoid the worst sort of behavior.() In some aspect, the so called bad feeling reflects the best nature of human being. Just because we don’t want to feel guilty, we will not do bad things. 從某個角度講，這種最糟糕的情感烘托出人類最美好的一面。為避免內(nèi)疚于心，我們便不去做壞事。 22. In that sense guilt is the great civilizer, the internal mandment that helps us choose to be kind to each other rather than to join in a stampede of me firsts. () In that aspect, guilt can make us civilized and force us by conscience to be good people instead of putting ourselves in the first place urgently. 這樣說來，內(nèi)疚感對促進人類文明有巨大作用，它是人類內(nèi)心的戒律，幫助我們與人為善而非一股腦地你爭我搶。 23. a tremendous surge of young people overpowered the adults in the sixties () the effect of a drastic boom of young people overcame the values of adults in 1960s 24． the barbarians took Rome () the savage people took the control This idiom es from the historical fact that the great Roman Empire was overthrown by the so called barbarians whom Roman people thought were less civilized than them, so this idiom is often used in literature to refer to a shame or degradation of civilization. 25． We may resolve one by changing our view of it and another by changing our behavior. () To solve the problem of guilt, we can either change our definition of it so that we may feel better, or change what we will do to avoid sense of guilt. 26． live with myself () to be fortable with my conscience。 to be unashamed 27． Striving to follow their lead is like accepting a catatonic as your role model. () To remain guiltless are not proper to the same degree. 28. Guilt is one of the most human of dilemmas. () the most human ofHere the phrase altogether functions as an adjective. 29. It is the claim of others on the self. () It means to satisfy others’needs at the cost of one’s own interest. 這意味著舍己為人。 Ⅲ . Key to the exercises 1. Reading prehension (1) They think guilt is a bad thing for one’s psychology, and if you want to live with true liberation, you should get rid of the sense of guilt and try to believe everything and everybody is OK, no matter what you have done. (2) Under this kind of conception, people try to ignore the sense of guilt without finding out its