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翻译求 高手There is a theory among Occidentals that the Chinaman

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翻译求 高手
There is a theory among Occidentals that the Chinaman is inscrutable, full of secret thoughts, and impossible for us to understand. It may be that a greater experience of China would have brought me to share this opinion; but I could see nothing to support it during the time when I was working in that country. I talked to the Chinese as I should have talked to English people, and they answered me much as English people would have answered a Chinese whom they considered educated and not wholly unintelligent. I do not believe in the myth of the "Subtle Oriental": I am convinced that in a game of mutual deception an Englishman or American can beat a Chinese nine times out of ten. But as many comparatively poor Chinese have dealings with rich white men, the game is often played only on one side. Then, no doubt, the white man is deceived and swindled; but not more than a Chinese mandarin would be in London.
One of the most remarkable things about the Chinese is their power of securing the affection of foreigners. Almost all Europeans like China, both those who come only as tourists and those who live there for many years. In spite of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, I can recall hardly a single Englishman in the Far East who liked the Japanese as well as the Chinese. Those who have lived long among them tend to acquire their outlook and their standards. New arrivals are struck by obvious evils: the beggars, the terrible poverty, the prevalence of disease, the anarchy and corruption in politics. Every energetic Westerner feels at first a strong desire to reform these evils, and of course they ought to be reformed.
有一个理论,在西方人的中国人变幻莫测的,充满了秘密的想法,我们无法理解.它可能是一个更大的经验,中国将会带我去认同这一看法,但我可以看到没有去支持它时我正在在那个国家.我跟中国人是我应该跟英国人,他们回答我就像英国人就能回答一个中国教育和他们所认为不完全是非理性的.我不相信这个神话中的"微妙的东方”:我相信在一个游戏的互相欺骗一个英国人还是美国人能击败中国十之八九.但许多贫困的中国打交道比较丰富的白人,游戏中,经常只在一边.然后,毫无疑问,白人是欺骗、受骗;但不超过一个普通话woul