【读书笔记】王尔德《自深深处》17
1891年，处在写作生涯巅峰期的王尔德遇见了阿尔弗雷德·“波西”·道格拉斯(Alfred "Bosie" Douglas)，两人很快成为了同性恋人。四年后，因为这段“不敢说出名字的爱”，王尔德 被判“有伤风化”罪而入狱。在狱中，王尔德开始反思从前的生活，思索痛苦和人生的意义，艺术和爱的真谛 ，最终将那些痛苦的泪水都化作优美而深沉的文字，写成了这封名为"de profundis"(从深处)的长信。
作者简介：奥斯卡·王尔德(Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900)，英国维多利亚时代著名作家， “唯美主义运动”的领军人物，倡导“为艺术而艺术”(Art for art's sake)。他的代表作有 戏剧《莎乐美》(Salome)《认真的重要性》(The Importance of Being Earnest)，童话《快乐王子》(The Happy Prince) 《夜莺与玫瑰》(The Nightingale and the Rose)，小说《道连·格雷的画像》(The Picture of Dorian Gray)， 以及书信《自深深处》(De Profundis)等。
【原著选段】
You thought that in attacking your own father with dreadful letters, abusive telegrams, and insulting postcards you were really fighting your mother’s battles, coming forward as her champion, and avenging the no doubt terrible wrongs and sufferings of her married life. It was quite an illusion on your part; one of your worst indeed. The way for you to have avenged your mother’s wrongs on your father, if you considered it part of a son’s duty to do so, was by being a better son to your mother than you had been: by not making her afraid to speak to you on serious things: by not signing bills the payment of which devolved on her: by being gentler to her, and not bringing sorrow into her days. Your brother Francis made great amends to her for what she had suffered, by his sweetness and goodness to her through the brief years of his flower-like life. You should have taken him as your model.
【朱纯深译本】
你还以为，写信拍电报寄明信片去咒骂侮辱自己的父亲，你这是在替你母亲出头，为她打抱不平，为她在婚后所受的无疑是可怕的屈辱和痛苦报仇。这真是你的一大幻想，真是你最糟糕的一个幻想。要为你母亲所受的苦找你父亲报仇，假如你认为这是做儿子的部分责任，那就得改弦更张，做个好儿子；就不要弄得她不敢同你谈重大的事情；就不要签些账单到头来都算到她头上；就要更好地待她，别让她的日子雪上加霜。你的兄长弗兰西斯，在他短短的如花般的生命中，就以他的温良随和大大减轻了你母亲的痛苦。你应该以他为楷模才是。
【读书笔记】
1、champion 除了常见的“冠军，第一名”的意思外，champion还有“斗争者，捍卫者，声援者”的意思。另外它还可以作动词，表示“捍卫，拥护，支持”。
【举例】a champion for the liberation of the slaves 为解放奴隶而奋斗的战士
a champion of reforms 提倡改革者
champion a just cause 捍卫正义事业
2、devolve v.(工作、职责等)移交，转移
【举例】The work devolved on/upon him when his superior was ill. 他的上司生病时，工作就落在他身上。
3、amends n.赔偿，补偿。注意：amend看起来是复数形式，但是用作单数。
【举例】make amends to sb. 赔偿某人/向某人赔礼道歉
【相关词汇】
amend v.修改；改进；改正 amend one's way 改过自新
4、model 模范，典型；模型；样品；模特儿
【举例】take sb. as one's model 把某人作为自己的榜样