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英语翻译请将下文译文汉语:Aldous Huxley was a most unfortunate man.When h

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英语翻译
请将下文译文汉语:
Aldous Huxley was a most unfortunate man.When he died in 1963 he must have expired in the confident belief that the event would be given wide coverage in the press the next day.After all,his career had not been without distinction.Where he made his big mistake was in dying on the same day that John F.Kennedy was assassinated.As a result Huxley got about three column inches at the bottom of page 27.
In the same way the death of Victor Farris has gone widely unnoticed because he foolishly shuffled off this mortal coil at the same time as Mr.Konstantin Chernenko.Now,as you all know,Victor Farris was the chap who invented the paper clip.The paper milk carton too.And paper clips and milk cartons will be in use long after everyone has forgotten the name of the comrade who came between Andropov and whatever this new bloke is called.
『The same goes for the inventor of the supermarket trolley who died in Switzerland a few months ago.』①Fell off his trolley,so to speak.『For all I know,he may be a household name in his own canton and they are putting up a statue of home wheeling his trolley,and are going to commemorate him on one of those ever-so-tasteful Swiss postage stamps we used to collect when we were younger and wiser,』②but I doubt if his name will be remembered outside the borders of his small country.Personally I forgot it within minutes of reading of his decease.
Not that it matters.Somehow it is hard to imagine things like paper clips and supermarket trolleys having had a named inventor.It’s like discovering that at a particular moment of history a particular person invented the spoon,or the chair,or socks.One assumes that these everyday objects just happened,or evolved through natural selection.
It isn’t necessarily so.I read only the other day that RichardⅡinvented the handkerchief.Almost everything else was invented either by Leonardo da Vinci(scissors,bicycles,helicopters,and probably spoons,socks and the Rubik cube as well)or by Benjamin Franklin(lightning-conductor,rocking-chair,bifocals)or else by Joseph Stalin(television).
It’s quite possible that Leonardo or Benjamin Franklin or Stalin also invented the supermarket trolley.Certainly it has been invented more than once.Hardly was Herr Edelweiss(or whatever the Swiss chap was called)in his grave,than news came of the death of Sylvan N.Goodman at the age of 86.Sylvan also invented the supermarket trolley or,as the Los Angeles Times report calls it,the shopping cart.
Be that as it may,Herr Edelweiss or Sylvan Goodman,or both,did a grand job and made supermarket shopping far less hellish than it would otherwise be.The next step will be to get the trolleys out of the shops and into the streets.You could put an engine in the front and call it a car.Or give it big wheels and a canopy and call it a pram.The possibilities are endless.
奥尔德斯•赫胥黎是一个极其不幸的人.(即使)在1963年当他死的时候,他依然满怀信心,坚信总有一天这件事情会在新闻界被大规模地报道.毕竟,他的事业不是没有辉煌过.他因欲望而犯了严重的错误,而在同一天,约翰•F•肯尼迪遇刺死亡.结果在第27页的底部他得到了大约三英寸宽的专栏(评论).
同样,维克多•法里斯的死已经被广泛地忽视了,因为他与康斯坦丁•契尔年科先生同时愚蠢地摆脱了尘世的烦恼.现在,正如你们所知道的,维克多•法里斯就是那个发明夹纸的回形针的人,纸牛奶盒也是他发明的.而且回形针和牛奶盒会一直被使用直到每个人都已经忘记了那个叫安德罗波夫或任何新称呼的家伙的名字.
同样的遭遇也发生在了几个月前在瑞士去世的超市手推车的发明者身上.①据说,他从他的手推车上摔倒.据我所知,在他的那个州里面,他的名字可能家喻户晓,而且他们将要在家乡建起一座雕像来转动他的手推车并且想要在其中一种在任何时候都有鉴赏力的瑞士邮票上纪念他.那种邮票是过去在我们更年轻、更聪明的时代常常收集的.②但是,我怀疑他的名字是否会被在他国家边境之外的人记住.个人觉得我会在短短几分钟之内忘记关于他死亡的文章.这并不重要.
不知道为什么我们很难去想象一些事情比如回形针和超市手推车都有一个据以取名的发明者一样.它就像在历史的某个特殊时期里面发现有一个特别的人发明了汤匙或者椅子或者短袜.有人认为这些平常的事物仅仅发生或者在自然的选择下进化而已.它不是必然如此的.
我在查理二世发明了手帕之后的另一天才察觉这件事.几乎其他所有的东西不是列奥纳多•达芬奇(剪刀,自行车,直升机,以及或许勺子,短袜和魔方也是)发明的,就是本杰明•富兰克林(避雷针,摇椅,双光眼镜)或者由约瑟夫•斯大林(电视)发明的.
很有可能列奥纳多•达芬奇或者本杰明•富兰克林或者约瑟夫•斯大林也发明了超市手推车.当然,这不止被发明了一次.除了86岁的Sylvan N.Goodman的死亡消息被报导之外,Herr Edelweiss(或者任何对瑞士男士的称呼)几乎不在他的坟墓里.Sylvan也发明超市手推车或者正如洛杉矶时报报导的把它叫做购物车.
尽管如此,Herr Edelweiss或者Sylvan N.Goodman,或者两个人都做了重大的事情并且使超市购物相比其他方面更不令人毛骨悚然.下一步就要把手推车从商店里面发展到大街上.你可以把一个引擎放在手推车前面并叫它做汽车或者给它装上大轮子和一张遮蓬,叫它做婴儿车.(它会是什么)这一可能性是无穷无尽的
ps:这是人工翻译的,虽然有用词典查过一些不懂的单词,但是只是查单词,不是整个句子;有些地方不太理解,翻译得不好的话,请见谅