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原帖由 dirtyoldman 於 2010-4-26 09:36 發表 
Bernard Shaw??
DOM 真係 OM
, YES！
張愛玲遺囑執行人宋淇先生的先父文學家宋春舫譯有蕭翁演詞, 但可惜網上只得部份; 實屬翻譯之上品, 請欣賞。
蕭翁於港大演說部份......
A Message to the Chinese People
I am flattered by this request for a message to the Chinese people, for it implies that I am a modern Confucius.
I, however, cannot see myself in that magnitude.
The Chinese people cannot live on messages, and too many messages are not news for the press, and usually provide the dullest reading.
Besides, I am at present trying to find out what message China has for me and for the West. Her history since the year 1911,
when it is completed, will be the fullest instruction for students of political scinence.
Then she will have achieved a complete cure for that disease called civilization, either by changing it to her own benefit or rejecting it altogether.
In the meantime I can only look on and wonder what is going to happen. It is not for me, belonging as I do to a quarter of the globe which is mismanaging its affairs in a ruinous fashion to pretend to advise an ancient people desperately striving to set its house in order.
Europe can give no counsel to Asia except at the risk of the old rebuff “Physician, heal thysself.” I am afraid I have likewise nothing to say in the present emergency except “China help thyself.”
對於中國人民之意見
承垂詢對於中國人民之意見，是以現代孔子視我也，予何敢當。
中國人民，不能恃他人之意見為生，且意見過多，即不成為新聞，而常為讀者所厭棄矣。況予東來，正欲反叩中國人民，對余及西方之意見曰何？中國自1911年革命以來，以至將來完成之時，典問經過，足為研究政治學家之教訓者實多。逆料其成功之日，足以根本療治近世「文明」之病；改善之，可也；棄若敝履，亦可也。余唯有旁觀而坐視其變化耳。予今來自顛倒錯亂之國家，危牆之下，事變正殷，何能對玆古國人民，努力改建之際，妄思有所忠告乎？
歐洲對為亞洲，實不能有任何建議，否則必貽反唇之譏，謂「醫人者當先自醫」也。中國今在危急存亡之秋，予不敢貢獻何種意見，但謂中國人當自救耳。
中國人民，而能一心一德，敢向世界孰能與之抗衡乎？
神意俱備, 難得之至。
蕭翁到港, 由何東招待, 港府官員, 避之則吉, 有趣！
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