If these two noticed Angel's growing social ineptness, he noticed their growing mental limitations. Felix seemed to him all Church; Cuthbert all College. His Diocesan Synod and Visitations were the main-springs of the world to the one; Cambridge to the other. Each brother candidly recognized that there were a few unimportant scores of millions of outsiders in civilized society, persons who were neither University men nor churchmen; but they were to be tolerated rather than reckoned with and respected.
如果说他的两个哥哥注意到了安琪尔越来越不合社会世俗,那么他也注意到了他的两个哥哥在心智上越来越狭隘。在他看来,费利克斯似乎就是整个社会,卡斯伯特似乎就是所有的学院。对费利克斯来说,主教会议和主教视察就是世界的主要动力;对卡斯伯特来说,世界的主要动力则是剑桥。他们每一个人都坦诚地承认,在文明的社会里,还有千千万万的无足轻重的化外之人,他们既不属于大学,也不属于教会;对他们只需容忍,而无需尊敬和一视同仁。

They were both dutiful and attentive sons, and were regular in their visits to their parents. Felix, though an offshoot from a far more recent point in the devolution of theology than his father, was less self-sacrificing and disinterested. More tolerant than his father of a contradictory opinion, in its aspect as a danger to its holder, he was less ready than his father to pardon it as a slight to his own teaching. Cuthbert was, upon the whole, the more liberal-minded, though, with greater subtlety, he had not so much heart.
他们是两个孝顺的儿子,定期回家看望他们的父母。在神学的发展变化中,虽然费利克斯和他的父亲相比是更新的一支的产物,但是却缺少了父亲的牺牲精神,多了自私自利的特点。和他的父亲相比,对于和他相反的意见,他不会因为这种意见对坚持这种意见的人有害就不能容忍,但是这种意见只要对他的说教有一点儿害处,他可不会像他父亲那样容易宽恕别人。总的说来,卡斯伯特是一个气量更加宽宏的人,不过他虽然显得更加敏感,但是却少了许多勇气。

As they walked along the hillside Angel's former feeling revived in him - that whatever their advantages by comparison with himself, neither saw or set forth life as it really was lived. Perhaps, as with many men, their opportunities of observation were not so good as their opportunities of expression. Neither had an adequate conception of the complicated forces at work outside the smooth and gentle current in which they and their associates floated. Neither saw the difference between local truth and universal truth; that what the inner world said in their clerical and academic hearing was quite a different thing from what the outer world was thinking.
他们沿着山坡上的路走着,安琪尔先前的感觉又在心中出现了——和他自己相比,无论他们具有什么样的优势,他们都没有见过也没有经历过真正的生活。也许,他们和许多别的人一样,发表意见的机会多于观察的机会。他们和他们的同事们一起在风平浪静的潮流中随波逐流,对在潮流之外起作用的各种复杂力量谁也没有充分的认识。他们谁也看不出局部的真理同普遍的真理之间有什么区别;也不知道他们在教会和学术的发言中,内心世界所说的和外部世界正在想的是完全不同的一回事。

'I suppose it is farming or nothing for you now, my dear fellow,' Felix was saying, among other things, to his youngest brother, as he looked through his spectacles at the distant fields with sad austerity. 'And, therefore, we must make the best of it. But I do entreat you to endeavour to keep as much as possible in touch with moral ideals. Farming, of course, means roughing it externally; but high thinking may go with plain living, nevertheless.'
“我想你现在一心想的就是农业了,别的什么也不想了,是不是,我的朋友?”费利克斯带着悲伤和严肃的神情,透过眼镜看着远方的田野,在说完了其它的事情后对他的弟弟说。“因此,我们只能尽力而为了。不过我还是劝你千万努力,尽可能不要放弃了道德理想。当然,农业生产就是意味着外表的粗俗;但是,高尚的思想无论怎样也可以和简朴的生活结合在一起呀。”