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● for experience, for leadership：用了两个抽象名词；其实是我们需要有经验的“人”，有领导才干的“人”，英文于此地不用“人”这个概念，此乃中英文思想不同之处。
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● fumbling：笨拙的，瞎摸的。to the care of such fumbling hands：交到这种人的手里去。
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● dutifully if reluctantly：心虽不愿，但是为了波士顿八十万市民计……。submit my name：把我的名字提出来。realizing full（副词）well：同时我充分了解这点道理。后面随一”that” clause，此clause中又先出一”while” clause，后面又用it代替另一”that” clause（that this city…）。
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● revert：此字前面已见过，是“返老还童”；这里也有“开倒车”之意。Government by Pygmies：林肯有government by the people（由人民来作主的政府）的名言。这里是由Pygmies（侏儒，小人物）来作主的政府。
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This announcement had been carefully timed so that it would appear in the city edition of all morning papers; in this way, the maximum desirable effect would be achieved; the majority of his opponents would learn the bad news over their morning coffee. It was a thought which appeared to afford him a virtually limitless satisfaction.
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● timed：time作动词用，解作“时间算准”。city edition：本市版。
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● the maximum desirable effect would be achieved：可以达到希望中的最大效用。
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● It was a thought：（他的那些政敌一早起来，翻开报纸就看见他再度竞选的消息，不禁先则愕然，继则愤然，再则黯然）他一想到这点，心里就感到无限安慰。他事前封锁消息到那天晚上再公布，目的就要使他的敌人生一天气。virtually limitless：几乎是无限的。
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现代英文选评注 Moon Shell月形螺壳
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906—2001)
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本文作者是名飞行家林白上校（Charles A. Lindbergh）的夫人，其父亲是外交家。林白夫人写诗，也写小说；这篇文章选自她1955年出版的散文集《海的礼物）》（Gift from the Sea）。该书收了八篇文章，大多是林白夫人记录自己在海滨的各种思想，大多有关妇女问题和人生问题。她的思想大多又是海滨的各种贝壳所引起的，所以这本书名《海的礼物》。这种发抒个人感慨的散文，在中国是“散文正宗”，美国十九世纪的散文也很多是这一种的，但是二十世纪便很少见。林白夫人此书出版后很受欢迎，列入畅销书。
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This is a snail shell, round, full and glossy as a horse chestnut. Comfortable and compact, it sits curled up like a cat in the hollow of my hand. Milky and opaque, it has the pinkish bloom of the sky on a summer evening, ripening to rain. On its smooth symmetrical face is pencilled with precision a perfect spiral, winding inward to the pinpoint center of the shell, the tiny dark core of the apex, the pupil of the eye. It stares at me, this mysterious single eye—and I stare back.
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● snail：蜗牛。海滩上的贝壳，也有圆圆的像蜗牛壳的。full：丰满的。glossy：光泽鲜明的。horse chestnut：“七叶树”所结的果子，据说以前是马的饲料。
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● compact：满满的。Comfortable形容贝壳，似乎奇怪；但贝壳既比作为猫，此字也是妥当的。curled是过去分词，作形容词用，形容主语it。这两句的形容词，有些放在名词的前面，有些放在后面，其间颇有考究。如第一句改成：This is a round snail shell. 第二句改成：It sits comfortable, compact, and curled up. 都比较差。
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● in the hollow of my hand：在我手心里面（我手的洼处）。
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● 第三句又是以两个形容词开头。这种句法，至少可以省掉verb to be；否则的话It is comfortable and compact；it is milky and opaque：重复地说，句法很笨。现在把形容词放在一句之首，句子的主语还没出现；句子的重心不落在这几个形容词身上，句子里可以讲些更重要的事。opaque：不透明的。bloom：红润之色。ripening：这个字来形容天空，很怪。原义是“成熟”，夏日黄昏，红云渐浓，乃下雨之兆。
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● symmetrical：对称的。pencilled：并不真是用铅笔画的；线条很细，好像是铅笔画的。spiral：螺旋线。此字乃本句之主语。pinpoint：像针头那样细的。core：核心。此字和center是“同位”。pupil：瞳孔，这个字也是同位语。圆形的螺壳，好像是只眼睛。apex：顶点。
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Now it is the moon, solitary in the sky, full and round, replete with power. Now it is the eye of a cat that brushes noiselessly through long grass at night. Now it is an island, set in ever-widening circles of waves, self-contained, serene.
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● 作者看见这只螺壳，思潮大作，把它比作三件东西。Now连着用，表示“一下子这样，一下子那样”。
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● replete：充满了。power：如把月亮看作是神，它有它的权力，通常以为月亮有一种magical power，中国有僵尸拜月，狐狸拜月的传说，西洋人以为月亮能使人发狂。至少月亮有吸动潮水的力量。
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● a cat that中的that代替cat。brushes through：走过（身体跟外物磨擦的）。
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● set是过去分词：放在。self-contained：自足的。serene：宁静的。这两个形容词，放到句子的结尾来了。形容island。
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How wonderful are islands! Islands in space, like this one I have come to, ringed about by miles of water, linked by no bridges, no cables, no telephones. An island from the world and the world’s life. Islands in time, like this short vacation of mine. The past and the future are cut off: only the present remains. One lives like a child or a saint in the immediacy of here and now. Every day, every act, is an island, washed by time and space, and has an island’s completion. People, too, become like islands in such an atmosphere, self-contained, whole and serene; respecting other people’s solitude, not intruding on their shores, standing back in reverence before the miracle of another individual. “No man is an island,” said John Donne. I feel we are all islands—in a common sea.
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