“We must remember that grossness and indecency…are matters of time and place,” wrote Mr Burton in his introduction, a year before he was knighted. “What is offensive in England is not so in Egypt.”
“要知道，所谓的粗鄙与下流，也要分具体的时间和地点，”伯顿在书的前言里如是写道，“在英国不被接受的东西在埃及却并非如此”。
And we cannot authorize indecency without jeopardizing our survival as a decent society.
我们授权下流行径，就不可能不危害到我们以公正社会为形式的生存。
I understand that suspicion and fear are of no use; and in retrospecting and reviewing the past, I look up just to find that I have trampled under my feet all indecency and cowardice.
我知道，怀疑和惶恐都是没有用的，回首之余，我抬起头，才发现一切猥琐和胆怯都被自己踩在了脚下。
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