It had never occurred to the straightforward and simple-minded Vicar that one of his own flesh and blood could come to this! He was stultified, shocked, paralyzed. And if Angel were not going to enter the Church, what was the use of sending him to Cambridge? The University as a step to anything but ordination seemed, to this man of fixed ideas, a preface without a volume. He was a man not merely religious, but devout; a firm believer - not as the phrase is now elusively construed by theological thimble-riggers in the Church and out of it, but in the old and ardent sense of the Evangelical school: one who could
這位性格率直思想單純的牧師從來(lái)沒(méi)有想到，他自己的親生骨肉竟會(huì)說(shuō)出這樣一番話來(lái)。他不禁嚇住了、愣住了、癱瘓了。要是安琪爾不愿意進(jìn)入教會(huì)，那么把他送到劍橋去還有什么用處呢？對(duì)這位思想觀念一成不變的牧師來(lái)說(shuō)，進(jìn)劍橋大學(xué)似乎只是進(jìn)入教會(huì)的第一步，是一篇還沒(méi)有正文的序言。他這個(gè)人不但信教，而且非常虔誠(chéng)；他是一個(gè)堅(jiān)定的信徒——這不是現(xiàn)在教堂內(nèi)外拿神學(xué)玩把戲而閃爍其詞時(shí)用作解釋的一個(gè)詞，而是在福音教派①過(guò)去就有的在熱烈意義上使用的一個(gè)詞。他是這樣一個(gè)人：

Indeed opine
真正相信?

That the Eternal and Divine
上帝和造物主

Did, eighteen centuries ago
在十八世紀(jì)以前

In very truth...
確實(shí)作過(guò)上……

Angel's father tried argument, persuasion, entreaty.
安琪爾的父親努力同他爭(zhēng)論，勸說(shuō)他，懇求他。

'No, father: I cannot underwrite Article Four (leave alone the rest), taking it "in the literal and grammatical sense" as required by the Declaration; and, therefore, I can't be a parson in the present state of affairs,' said Angel. 'My whole instinct in matters of religion is towards reconstruction; to quote your favourite Epistle to the Hebrews, "the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain".'
“不，爸爸；光是第四條我就不能贊同（其它的暫且不論），不能按照《宣言》的要求‘按照字面和語(yǔ)法上的意義’接受它；所以，在目前的情況下我不能做牧帥，”安琪爾說(shuō)?！瓣P(guān)于宗教的問(wèn)題，我的全部本能就是趨向于將它重新改造；讓我引用你所喜愛(ài)的《希伯萊書(shū)》中的幾句話吧，‘那些被震動(dòng)的都是受造之物，都要挪去，使那不被震動(dòng)的常存’?！?/div>

His father grieved so deeply that it made Angel quite ill to see him.
他的父親傷心無(wú)比，安琪爾見(jiàn)了心里感到非常難受。

'What is the good of your mother and me economizing and stinting ourselves to give you a University education, if it is not to be used for the honour and glory of God?' his father repeated.
“要是你不為上帝的光輝和榮耀服務(wù)，那么我和你母親省吃儉用、吃苦受罪地供你上大學(xué)，還有什么用處呢？”他的父親把這話說(shuō)了一遍又一遍。

'Why, that it may be used for the honour and glory of man, father.'
“可以用來(lái)為人類的光輝和榮耀服務(wù)啊，爸爸?！?/div>

Perhaps if Angel had persevered he might have gone to Cambridge like his brothers. But the Vicar's view of that seat of learning as a stepping-stone to Orders alone was quite a family tradition; and so rooted was the idea in his mind that perseverance began to appear to the sensitive son akin to an intent to misappropriate a trust, and wrong the pious heads of the household, who had been and were, as his father had hinted, compelled to exercise much thrift to carry out this uniform plan of education for the three young men.
如果安琪爾繼續(xù)堅(jiān)持下去，也許他就可以像兩個(gè)哥哥一樣去劍橋了。但是牧師的觀點(diǎn)完全是一種家庭傳統(tǒng)，就足僅僅把劍橋這個(gè)學(xué)府當(dāng)作進(jìn)入教會(huì)的一塊墊腳石；他心中的思想是那樣根深蒂固，所以生性敏感的兒子開(kāi)始覺(jué)得，他要再堅(jiān)持下去就好像是侵吞了一筆委托財(cái)產(chǎn)，對(duì)個(gè)起他虔誠(chéng)的父母，正如他的父親睹示的那樣，他們過(guò)去和現(xiàn)在都不得不節(jié)衣縮食，以便實(shí)現(xiàn)供養(yǎng)三個(gè)兒子接受同樣教育的計(jì)劃。

①福音教派（Evangelical school），新教（Protestant）中的一派，認(rèn)為福音的要義是宣講人陷入罪惡，耶穌為人贖罪，人應(yīng)憑借信心贖罪。英國(guó)國(guó)教中包含這種主義的也就是低教派（Low Church）。